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Wow! airtable really... that is so good! (-ing)

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A tool I came to know through no-code, Airtable 

 

Airtable | Everyone's app platform

Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

airtable.com

 

Airtable is fundamentally a database tool with spreadsheet characteristics. And the reason this tool is attractive, rising newly (actually it's a service launched in 2012.. already in its 10th year.) alongside the no-code wave, is as follows.  

(1) From a non-developer's perspective, the wow point is that anyone who can use Excel can configure and operate a relational database through the GUI (graphical user interface) it provides. And (2) from the perspective of a service planner or a founder preparing a new service, the very impressive part is how easily you can build and deploy a web-based general user interface. For example, for web pages with forms that collect information from users — such as sign-up or email subscription —  you can create and deploy them without actually developing them. And the difficulty is simpler than putting together a Notion page. The closest analogous service in terms of difficulty would probably be something like https://litt.ly/. (3) The benefit from a developer's perspective is how easy it is to interface and integrate databases with already-developed services. In particular, you can adopt it while preserving existing development history, which means for processes that iterate frequently via internal reviews and user validation in epics or sprints, it greatly reduces the burden of producing, validating, discarding, or deploying products, making it very beneficial for both mental health and wrist health. Finally, (4) for all office workers who use computers, it offers the usefulness of letting anyone build an automated work system — the so-called RPA (Robotic Process Automation) environment — in the No-code way that's all the rage lately. 

 

 

 

Study Step1.

When learning something difficult or unfamiliar, you need a strategy. That strategy is egoing! 

I kept saying I should try it, I should try it.. and already several weeks had passed.. then YouTube's algorithm introduced me to egoing's YouTube videos.
An egoing lecture I hadn't seen in a long while.. can't pass on this, hahaha. Binge-watched — 1 hour 30 minutes, 15 videos.. Oh! Nice! Right now there's no better tutorial for beginners than this. Already 2 years ago.. once again I'm amazed at egoing's foresight, and to myself who had been distant for a while, sorry. Still, applause for finishing the whole course hehehe.

egoing YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuHgQVnccGMCD1zZNtEfdljrtoZIL4CaA 

 

Airtable

 

www.youtube.com

 

 

Step1 | Practice Scenario

You can provide a page where visitors who've seen your blog can leave you inquiries. And when a visitor sends you a message, you can set up a database that captures that information and simultaneously configure a notification trigger.

1. The visitor accesses the web page below and

 

Airtable | Everyone's app platform

Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

airtable.com


2. The visitor enters information and submits. 

3. A record is added to the Airtable inbound-customer table I configured.

The table collected via the Airtable Form (link above)


4. Once a record is added to the inbound-customer table,

4-1. via Airtable Automation settings, 

Example of Airtable Automation settings


4-2. I can receive a notification at my email. 

Through Automation settings, Airtable lets you reference specific fields of the added record to compose a message, and provides an editor supporting basic Mark-up functionality.

 

5. Add a direct link to the notification message so you can jump right into the details. 

A page, accessed via the direct link in the notification email, where you can check the details the visitor submitted

 

 

 

 

 

Study Step2.

- In preparation

 

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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