EZ Links @ Smartsheet

Modernizing our linking UX for hackweek!

✍🏽 About Smartsheet

Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR) is an industry-leading enterprise work management platform, boasting millions of passionate users!

The same project data can be dynamically viewed in various different ways (card/boards, timelines/gantt charts, and tables/grids). Content/asset management, workflows, mini-apps, dashboards, and more make for a robust CWM ecosystem capable of servicing large enterprise customers and small nimble customers alike.

Smartsheet's Card/Board view, a popular view for project planning

⚠️ The Problem

• Links in the various views of the Smartsheet platform are a bit rough around the edges.
• Viewing a link in a kanban board, for example, requires you to click into the card, opening a side panel with full fields available. Once there, links (raw URL strings) are not clickable and you have to copy and paste them into new tabs to visit them.
• This creates inaccessible links buried deep in the UX, which is not ideal in a product where users need to add links everywhere.

✨ The Solution

• Assemble a hackweek team to build EZ Links 🔗, a rich-text solution that brings the linking UX in our products into the modern age!

👯‍♂️ The Hackweek Team

• 4 Senior Design Technologists (Including me 👋🏽)
• 1 product team engineer

The rest - coming soon! :)