New look expanded records

[David_Pickard]

Airtable - what have you done to the look of expanded records. It’s AWFUL. I’ve had a whole morning of my colleagues ringing me and asking what I’ve done to the look and begging me to change it back. Does anyone else share their revulsion?

[Quality_Assuran]

Hi David, whilst I am usually welcome to change, I too agree, this new format is very hard to read.
When a record is expanded it is difficult to follow which data I am now inputting with too big a gap from the field description. Airtable, please revert back to the old system or make the descriptions closer to the data entry fields.

[ScottWorld]

Airtable refers to this monstrosity as an “improvement”.

The official thread on this topic is below — be sure to comment on that thread, and also send an email to support@airtable.com about this:

Improvements to expand and edit records Announcements

Hi all! We are excited to share that as of today, we’ve made it easier for you - and your team - to expand and edit records in Airtable. We’re making it easier to edit records while in the expanded view. We’ve increased the area around fields (including moving the field label to the left to save vertical space) in the expanded view for each record and made improvements to the activity pane. We’ve also made it clear when a field is editable in expanded view so your collaborators can easily mak…

[Cassie_Chinn]

Saaaaaame. samesamesame. I can’t see anything. Text is too light, there are no bounds around text fields so text just floats, there is far too much white space, etc. Everyone on my team is having an incredibly hard time seeing, reading and editing records. I appreciate the attempt, but this one doesn’t work.

[ScottWorld]

@Cassie_Chinn @Quality_Assurance

Airtable will not see this thread. Be sure to email your comments to support@airtable.com, and be sure to add your comments to the official thread here:

Improvements to expand and edit records Announcements

Hi all! We are excited to share that as of today, we’ve made it easier for you - and your team - to expand and edit records in Airtable. We’re making it easier to edit records while in the expanded view. We’ve increased the area around fields (including moving the field label to the left to save vertical space) in the expanded view for each record and made improvements to the activity pane. We’ve also made it clear when a field is editable in expanded view so your collaborators can easily mak…