[HN Gopher] Starting design work in a spreadsheet
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Starting design work in a spreadsheet
 
Author : hazelnut-tree
Score  : 38 points
Date   : 2023-07-05 21:02 UTC (1 hours ago)
 
web link (clearleft.com)
w3m dump (clearleft.com)
 
| efortis wrote:
| Related: UI Drafter is specially designed for content design.
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| https://uidrafter.com
| 
| I look forward to hearing from you
 
  | wslh wrote:
  | Mmmmm, I think before Figma a pen and a paper are easier than
  | that tool, even Google Slides or draw.io are better.
 
    | efortis wrote:
    | For graphic design yes, but for content design, although
    | paper is easier is not as effective. For example, when
    | reordering, and grouping sections.
    | 
    | And as you mentioned, even PowerPoint click-through
    | prototypes are valuable and familiar.
 
| mud_dauber wrote:
| I used Excel sheets with a small grid scale & cell merges to
| build page layout prototypes for a startup. Didn't have to climb
| the Figma learning curve (no disrespect to Figma, I'm sure it's
| great). Would do it again.
 
| catchmeifyoucan wrote:
| Interesting article. I think a big challenge here is crunching
| the data.
| 
| I was looking to see if this scraping is a Sheets feature or
| something, but it's not clear if the author manually visited all
| of these pages and extracted all the headers.
 
  | dylan604 wrote:
  | >but it's not clear if the author manually visited all of these
  | pages and extracted all the headers.
  | 
  | "For this article I've used Screaming Frog to carry out the
  | content scrape"
  | 
  | https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
 
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