Is Google Spreadsheets’ UI Subliminally Supporting Hillary?
Robert Merrill
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Someone was taking notes for Hillary’s campaign branding brainstorming session… she was using a google spreadsheet to list out all the ideas… somebody made a long suggestion that messed up the row spacing… the note taker (bored of the meeting and irritated that the latest suggestion messed up the feng shui of the page) decided she needed to adjust the horizontal layout…. Then she saw… the button kind of looked like an H with an arrow as the horizontal line… at first she didn’t speak up, but with each new inane suggestion from the committee members her frustration with the meeting grew… finally she couldn’t take it anymore, “How about a blue H with a red arrow for the horizontal line.” The room fell silent… after a few moments a single tear came to the committee chair’s eye… he started to clap, slowly at first… after a few moments he stood up, still clapping… pretty soon everyone was on their feet clapping. She had done it! She had come up with a suggestion everyone actually liked! Her suggestion would be used for Hillary’s campaign branding… but more importantly… her suggestion had brought the meeting to an end and everybody could finally go to lunch.