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In a project I worked on the implementation of a very complex form (insurance company) with lots of conditions. Given the number of stakeholders and people invo
by stpe 10y ago
In a project I worked on the implementation of a very complex form (insurance company) with lots of conditions. Given the number of stakeholders and people involved having a say (legal, product owner, sales people, customer care, copywriter, etc) normal iteration (gathering feedback => implement => deploy => repeat) would simply take too long.
I very successfully used Google Spreadheets as a backend for this. Putting all text and the conditional logic in the spreadsheet, and allowing the form to be built as a web page based on the Google Spreadsheet data for instant preview. This allowed the different members in the project to even work in parallel (thanks to collaboration features) with stakeholders - and implementing the feedback immediately themselves DURING the meeting - to see if the results was what they expected.
I wrote a small blog post about this, unfortunately in Swedish, but hey - there's a video at least :) http://www.rebelandbird.com/hyperiterativ-prototypning-med-google-spreadsheets/ http://www.rebelandbird.com/hyperiterativ-prototypning-med-g...
Another powerful way I use personally is to use Google Spreadsheet as a data backend for Jekyll based static websites. Here is a Grunt plugin I did to deal with this https://github.com/stpe/grunt-gss-to-json https://github.com/stpe/grunt-gss-to-json - example usage; my retro games collection http://games.stpe.se/ http://games.stpe.se/