In 2019 I became frustrated with the user requests to "Export To Excel" that I wrote an article about it on Medium.
An excerpt from the article...
Working in the enterprise world as a web developer and later a UX practitioner, I’ve had several epiphanies over the years with regard to my users reliance upon Microsoft Excel. Wait…”several epiphanies”… is that the correct phrasing? Not sure. Let me try to explain my confusion on this...
An excerpt from the article...
Working in the enterprise world as a web developer and later a UX practitioner, I’ve had several epiphanies over the years with regard to my users reliance upon Microsoft Excel. Wait…”several epiphanies”… is that the correct phrasing? Not sure. Let me try to explain my confusion on this...
As a junior web developer ( many years ago ) I didn’t give much thought to a user request of “can we export that web page table to Excel?”. My only hesitation to that request was that it involved extra coding time. As a junior, I wasn’t putting much thought into “why” the user wanted this extra work. In fact, “Exporting to Excel” became requested so often, that it became a standard feature on any page that included tabular data. The user would search, sort, page, and filter… and then export to Excel. Hmmm… Yes, that is not an epiphany.
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