One of the things I always say is to get really good at the simple, to have the simplest layout possible. And we have to understand that. It’s not that we’re not going to add features, but we have to understand the reason that we need these custom tools, or the reason that we set […]
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With clients, this is a question I always ask because if the purpose of a system or a tool is too vague, then you’ll have too many things going. You have everything in it, and it doesn’t really show or tell why it’s been created. If it’s too granular, it’s too specific. You’re only able
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At times, we are faced with the weight of creating a custom system that is both functional and beautiful or colorful. When the no-code tools came out, some were quite ugly. But if you could come in and do the things that you needed to do and just log out, did we really need something
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When I started offering Airtable solutions, I realized that it was a bit confusing, especially for non-technical people and people who did not enjoy using spreadsheets that much. For people who used spreadsheets, adapting was very easy. But if people were coming from a more visual tool like Trello or any of the other colorful
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I speak a lot about knowing when things are wrong in your business, but how do you know that things are going well? At the start of every quarter, year, month, or whenever, you have certain goals that you’re trying to meet. You have certain metrics that you want to track. If you’re able to
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It’s probably annoying when you see that. Tiny decisions in a system like naming, labels, and terminology can have a surprisingly large effect on the people who use it every day. If you have come across something like this, depending on the tools you’re using, let’s say Airtable, you had someone create a base for
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