Spreadsheet … awesome tool
And I am not joking. Not a long time ago my opinion regarding the spreadsheets applications was next to zero. Why? … I don’t know, maybe because in my area, in my work-flow I didn’t need such tool. But lately the power of spreadsheets has come to me.
First, I was surprised to see how money management for a start-up was able through spreadsheets. That was a video tutorial by Ryan Carson published on Vitamin. It was a simple yet well explained tutorial from the basic costs of a start-up to the monthly income.
Later, I started to manage certain elements from my upcoming website and it really helps me in keeping the work-flow very fluid. And the nicest part is that the applicability is not limited, you can keep your game scores in a spreadsheet or you can hold your coding snippets.
Well, this graphic rating is about spreadsheets but, it is also about Google Spreadsheets. As you know Google has an online spreadsheet app. And also there are others like Thinkfree or Zoho in this area, but not as powerful as Google Spreadsheets.
This has to do with an issue I had in my work-flow regarding a collaborative task. So basically the task was planning a to-do list. And we tried at our coordinator’s suggestion Google Spreadsheets. It was awesome. Realtime multiple editing with highlight feature. Chat feature between session members.
For our task it only had one drawback – tiny comments in fixed size boxes. C’mon … that was the worst idea in the spreadsheets user experience.
In the end we thank all mighty Google for this product.
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Andy Gongea is a passionate UI/UX designer with a great appetite for technology and trends. Currently he owns, a future wife, a loan that comes with a monthly fee and some strange ideas about user interface and user interaction. Cheers!
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