[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)
        
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       | efortis wrote:
       | Related: UI Drafter is specially designed for content design.
       | 
       | https://uidrafter.com
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       | 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.
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           | 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"
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         | https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
        
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