Emoji poll

Cards layout with emoji
Cards layout without emoji
List layout with emoji
Displaying votes

The past couple of months have been pretty difficult here in Spain, given the high toll of infections with COVID-19. As companies re-organized to work from home, so did my wife’s. She is currently working as a Product Manager at Inditex HQ, here in Galicia. This was a great opportunity for me to learn about their workflow, which is where I noticed they usually make decisions as a team by casting votes. It can be simple questions like “What gift should we buy for Juan?”, to business-related questions, or company-wide feedback.

This inspired us to create a similar experience for businesses out there that need tools to collect anonymous feedback from their audiences, but have not had a chance to implement these on Airtable. So we created an engaging pooling system, where creators can add voting options in Airtable, together with a unique set of emojis to drive engagement. On top of that, the results are available to everyone, and votes are restricted to one per browser. This makes the entire process safe and transparent.

As we started working on the block, we stumbled upon several unknowns, but the community was quick to help. One of these problems was parsing our meta-content, and replicating our input controllers using different types of fields on Airtable. For example, if the user needs to set a date when the voting is closed, we needed to use the Date field for a familiar experience. It’s here where we got stuck but were quickly guided by someone in the community forums. All in all, it was a positive experience and we look forward to adding dozens of new blocks to Airtable.