Christmas comes early: Interfaces!

[WilliamPorter]

Yikes. I mean, wow. Did anybody see this coming? Interfaces.

First impressions after less than 30 minutes:

1. Looks well done
2. This is going to force me to reconsider everything

ADDED NEXT MORNING: Here’s the official scoop — and a remarkably well-done video intro.

[Cameron_Kaiser]

Interfaces were teased in the last big survey Airtable sent out, and I guess we liked it enough for them to follow through with it! I am absolutely going to have to reconsider everything, and can finally get rid of weird jury rigged interactive views :joy:

[WilliamPorter]

Looks like they did this the smart way:
Airtable makes Bayes its first acquisition to up its data visualization game | TechCrunch
I’m glad because it means that we’ve quite suddenly gotten a major upgrade that is already working pretty well. This came at a perfect time for me.

[Bill_French]

WilliamPorterTech:

Did anybody see this coming?

Um, yeah - I predicted and wrote about it at length 268 days ago.

Wrapping Text in field / cell

Customizable Views

Imagine if Airtable made it possible to customize the style of a view (using CSS and HTML perhaps) and even made it possible to color content, adjust font sizes, change the header styling, and support other event-related behaviors. Imagine if Airtable fundamentally supported a view as ostensibly an app . This would make it possible to embed very powerful view apps into web sites. Imagine publishing your own mobile “app” that is essentially a tightly bound view of data much the way Coda already does this.

I believe this will soon be a reality because it would solve a litany of challenges that almost 50% of the user base currently ask about. If they moved forward with custom views – as I predict they will - there would be almost certainly a capability to apply formatting to the content. And with that - you would see the ability to define cell widths allowing for cell content to be sized, wrapped, truncated, etc. This would likely allow us to separately style field headers - another issue in the long list of display limitations in what is often regarded as one of the best UIs in the low/no-code segment.

Yep - I’m confident this is coming. No software company in Airtable’s unique position would miss such an opportunity to advance its competitive advantage while putting smiles on a lot of customer faces.