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erm, pretty much everywhere. one example - you have a "free trial" button, but below that a required form field, swap them over, surely? the free demo button d
by pclark 16y ago
erm, pretty much everywhere. one example - you have a "free trial" button, but below that a required form field, swap them over, surely?
the free demo button doesn't work - goes to a page not found or sits there saying "building your site"
i feel like this "Making it easier to collect, collate and consolidate data and figures." is a really really poor description of what your product is. have you tested that it resonates?
i don't seem to be able to drag charts to move them, if i click the graph once it shows me formula, i click away to change view and it selects whichever cell i clicked in, i press cmd + z to undo and nothing happens.
everything feels like a lot of work, for example all the buttons need much much faster tool tips. why when i hover over one doesn't it tell me what that button is in the silver bar to the right?
why are some things formula and others lightbox ui controls (eg: add a link) feels like consistency for that stuff is ++
Site > Settings > Pages is honestly terrifying. draw some inspiration from Numbers.app? :)
- samcollins 16y agoI agree. It's a good idea, and I can see it having advantages over your competitors, but those advantages are negated when hard to access. UI needs to be cleaner and following all expected conventions (this isn't a new UI). Is there a reason the landing page is 730px wide? It feels like everything got crammed in pretty hard. I'm excited about what this could do, but it needs some time on the design before I'm comfortable playing around with it to evaluate properly.
- gordonguthrie 16y agoI will not respond to these point by point - but I will transcribe them into my review list.
- gordonguthrie 16y agoThe graphs aren't like Excel - we create graphs in cells (or merged cells) with a function like =graph(rows, cols, options) - so you can't drag them...
- revorad 16y agoThat's an interesting way to do it. Although the ability to move graphs around in Excel seems useful, I do it mostly to get the graph out of the way. How about having a cell/column on the side dedicated to graphs so that you can still use your =graph() implementation but it doesn't obstruct the spreadsheet view? You could even have a toggle button to hide it.
- gordonguthrie 16y agoThe reason for sticking to the =function(params) approach is it makes it easy to build things like =twitter.button("hypernumbers") <-- actual function and =google.maps(points) and other cool inline stuff - which then seamlessly clicks over to webpages/forms. You do want to be able to create dynamic webpages and putting graphs out on separate tab/page/things is a bit tricky because it all gets tangled up in permissions. You can always put them on their own page..