retrograde

fwiw Inkscape can generate vector QR codes and barcodes and it's free. Bar and QR code bits starts at around 9:50.
There are some other cool features Inkscape has in this video but that would be another discussion...
 

That sounds reasonable to me, without me thinking about it too much about possible problems.
Recently I’ve been using the Node Tool and the Shape Builder Tool to do this sort of thing – see attached video – but it would be nice to have a quicker way.
2024-03-31 09-33-49.mp4

Often when you edit curves through offsetting an baking appearances, the procedural corners are also baked in. This also applies when editing SVGs from external sources.
I often work back the corners so I can get a procedural corner going again. For this work, it would be really nice to have an uncorner tool, which extends both vertices to their common intersection point, while remaining on the line they were on (sometimes referred to as edge constraint transform).

2024-03-30 23-37-39.mp4  Could a tool be added which does this tedious work for me?  

fwiw Inkscape can generate vector QR codes and barcodes and it's free. Bar and QR code bits starts at around 9:50.
There are some other cool features Inkscape has in this video but that would be another discussion...
 

At first I thought this is an April 1st joke that accidentally fired off too early.

retrograde, Thanks for the app recommendation, look simple and cover most of what I'm after.
Your logo and illustration are great! 
 
Update:
I also looked at Apple motion app and it's really good for doing animation hopefully this will help others.

Remember you can easily add any new "favourite" shape to this asset pack for very quick reuse later as well.
Also if you select any shape tool you will find that the "special' control handles will appear on any shape pulled from the  asset pack for you to easily re-configure.

You might like this asset pack I created for the iPad version which lacks the shape presets hidden away in the cog icon on the desktop context toolbar, it allow you to quickly drag a circle or a rectangle in and of course you can extend it to add in your favourite versions, and of course works on the desktop as well. 

Shape Presets V2a.afassets

thank you, It works. After figuring out where the hidden handle is I can shear without the single tap. I need 20 mins of frustration to figure out where that hidden handle is. 

That seems to work, but phew Serif, there is a desperate lack of feedback and visual hints in the interface of what is possible and what is happening. You need to know if that single tap activated shear mode for example.

Yes it's called Keyshape. https://www.keyshapeapp.com/  and don't let the simple looking website and examples fool you into thinking it's too simple or not up to more complex animation work. It's way underrated and basically unknown. It is no After Effects but not everyone is looking for or even needs anything on that level. The team that develops it is in Finland I think and it seems that they are pretty low key about promoting it. Currently unfortunately there are only some really old tutorials on youtube on it but it does have a pretty robust help system which pretty much covers everything it can do. 
It's only for mac desktop, it's cheap-ish (30 bucks) and very powerful and stable and deceivingly simple to use. It has a 4.8 out of 5 on the app store. It's a vector animation tool that you can either copy and paste your vector artwork right from Designer into or if you open a file exported as an SVG from Designer it will honour the layers stack and names from your Designer file. Both preserving your vector paths, colours, transparency and drop shadows (it rasterizes these). It has a timeline, symbols, keyframes (including an auto keyframing button), pen tool, some basic shape tools, some simple interactivity options (onload, onclick, etc...) and a pretty full assortment of animatable transforms - opacity, rotation, scale, position (with motion paths), shape animations, easing interpolation presets, etc... and a pretty cool animation playback option called "stepped playback" which can give you that classic stop frame animation look. It also has an outline view mode similar to Designer for detailed path editing.
I use it for my simple animation work (https://www.kevincreative.com/Animation.html) and it can output to a wide variety of formats including svg, png, lottie (with free plugin), animated gif, mpeg4, WebP, sprite sheet, etc...  I even did a simple character walk cycle using it's hierarchy system that surprised the app developers as they had never seen it used in that way.
Wow this comment turned into a bit of a sales pitch didn't it 🙂 but until Serif develops some kind of animation app or feature set, if they ever do, this might be what you're looking for. Attached is a quick animation of a lever slider I did in it exported as an mpeg4 file created entirely in Keyshape including the drop shadow. Screenshot of the UI below as well.


Lever slider.mp4

During 2023 I drew a lot in it, because my art style is hand drawing vector. It's great as a simple drawing app, but not app for heavy laboured design. But they have some interesting features

Are there any plans of adding a two-dimensional alignment option? Akin to the "Tidy Up" option present in Figma.
I understand the objectives of those programs are a bit outside of the central scope of Affinity, but additions like that seem like the next logical step. Thank you!

As UX designer we often need to do a some simple UI animations for UX demonstration, and  moving between different apps is not an ideal. When designing for GUI we need to build assets for knob, sliders and buttons (music apps, see attached example) that have range of png images and a simple keyframe and in between animation is all that needed. 
I understand from different form posts that its not on the to do list on the Affinity development team timeline but I hope that you will change that perspective for the benefit of supporting UI/UX designers we just need simple to use keyframe and tweening (in between) animation tool with the ability to export as final GIF or each keyframe to PNG.
* As for macro it will be great if we can get the ability to apply macro and define how many times it should run for example to stitch different photos of eace layer or external folder. Is there a way to do so?
 
Please don’t offer to use other apps or online tools, I don’t like to switch apps I just need simple to use animation plugin or built in solution for Affinity designer / photos and using something like Figma doesn’t always works. Also is there way to write program extension to Affinity using some scripting language?
*Also for creating something like a slider we need to define and export 128 or 64 steps, thats why animation with keyframes in between is needed..
Thank you

Sort of related as it pertains to guides and the knife would be the ability to cut a guide or to turn any path into a guide.

Thanks @loukash for those examples. This is an approach that I have never considered using with artboards. Looks like nesting artboards would be great for packaging work or for jobs with multiple sized components. I remember Illustrator used to be able to do page tiling on larger oversized artboards (pages) for outputting larger documents in sections with bleeds. It seems also to be a nice organizational type of workflow to keep artboards inside of other artboards like folders in the layers panel. Maybe someday I'll find a use for this in my own work. Thanks.

Sort of related as it pertains to guides and the knife would be the ability to cut a guide or to turn any path into a guide.

Yes I think in general, artboards could use a revisit or some love or polish. Including a panel or ways to arrange and or reorder, better automatic naming when drag copying or duplicating an artboard (currently it keeps the same name as the original copied artboard), the ability to toggle the use of guides or grids across all artboards, copying and pasting objects or text to all artboards in a single paste (great for labelling artboards), viewing the active artboard to fit to window when you have a file with more than 1 artboard... etc...
Also somewhat related, I prefer the way Amadine and Illustrator separate artboards and layers into 2 separate panels and workflows, etc...

Sort of related as it pertains to guides and the knife would be the ability to cut a guide or to turn any path into a guide.

I have started to use the knife tool more and more on objects that I arrange following a precise guide pattern, and I trim the objects with the knife after the guides. Therefore, I use keyboard shortcuts to make straight cuts. It's probably not the first time in human history that someone has cut along a drawn line. 😊
Unfortunately, in terms of user-friendliness, it's not very easy to hit the guide precisely, it's hard to see when/if I hit it, and whether I follow the guide. I zoom in and out a lot and often miss.
I think, when snapping is enabled, you should add some snapping between the knife and guides at least, some kind of assisted mode where it's nearly impossible not to start on the guide and follow it, so you cut precisely.
Instead, I use boolean operators for precision when I can, and that's a pity. 😞

here's the mess
please add arrangement features (not distribution)
Reordering pages
change stacking (2x2,2x3,3x3 artboards etc...)
easier Artboard selection if you don't want to edit across layers

I think it would be useful to have a tool in the Designer to offset an open path. At the moment I don't see such a possibility. There are workarounds e.g. using Contour Tool and splitting the path, or adding extra Strokes in the Appearance panel.
I am not sure if a separate tool is needed for this. Maybe it would be possible to extend the functionality of the Contour Tool by adding an option to offset the path when it is open, instead of making a buffer around it.

Walt, Please try not to derail threads in this forum. These threads must be encouraged to stay on topic
@darwinwasright
Thanks, we may consider that for the future but further discussion on this can be held in that thread you linked to.

I’m bumping that feedback. 

Can we hope to have the split screen function on iOS? Slide over is OK but it hides half of the toolbar on left or right side when I use it.

I recently tried Amadine, a tiny drawing app. It blew me away that this little app had a better workflow for this kind of creative reutilisation of a "style".  I made a complex set of effects upon a box, fiddling with shadows and bevel looks etc. Then drew another box. It had all the same effects of that just created and last used "style", even though I'd not yet saved it as a Style, and didn't yet even know if Amadine has such a preset saving system for effects. 
 
But what was utterly amazing is how this immediately sent me into a creativity frenzy. I had fun doing stuff in a 2D vector app for the first time in a long while.
 
It was joyous.
IOW: I agree... workflow and bugs need to be worked on by Affinity, in equal measure with their new UI and features and version count increments.