How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet

Re:How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet by efortis on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:33PM (#45612807)

~2008 a friend at a consulting co. showed me how they drafted UIs in Excel.

Having seen that, in 2015 I began working on a UI drafting software for that kind of technical designers. We ended up getting rid of the layout thinking overhead while drafting. They call it Content-First Design.

If you'd like to try it it's free: https://uxtly.com

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Re:How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet by ynrfin on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:33AM (#45613870)

Hi, I am interested in this tool but I could not even grasp how does it trying to solve the problem as the video is buffering each second.

I watch youtube too so it is not my connection I assume

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Re:How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet by deaux on Friday October 17, 2025 @08:04AM (#45615754)

Same happens here.

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Re:How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet by efortis on Friday October 17, 2025 @09:35AM (#45616643)

If you don't mind, could you help me debug this issue by testing the direct link to the video:

https://uxtly.com/media/intro-PFXcRizx7hGieOVj96nDdBRNEDo.mp...

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Re:How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet by skydhash on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:03AM (#45616940)

The video resolution is quite high 2048x1152. I would suggest getting it down to something lower like 720p. It's not a huge file, but I got an oldish laptop (8th gen intel with iGPU) and it was choking on the rendering too, even if my network connection is quite good.

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Re:How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet by efortis on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:29AM (#45617205)

Thank you!

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Re:How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet by msephton on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:06AM (#45615303)

OP here. This is really cool! For my use cases it is missing the ability to easily expand/contract the working grid area, which is done with spreadsheets by adding/removing columns. So perhaps it is slightly too high fidelity for me? Definitely something I'll try out next time to find out!

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Re:How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet by efortis on Friday October 17, 2025 @09:33AM (#45616620)

Thank you for checking it out. In the past it had an auto-layout and app mode, but I removed all the graphic and layout design features in favor of "Copy for AI".

Your "Driving Game" mockup got me thinking about indicating proportions on the drafts. I don't have a good answer to that, except that Cards can be resized in width. At any rate, to answer "perhaps it is slightly too high fidelity", I would say it's the opposite, too low since there's no layout design involved.

I'm aware it‘s confusing because Cards look like a mobile layout. I tried doing the pencil sketch style but it also gave the impression of a layout design tool.

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