Is Google Spreadsheets’ UI Subliminally Supporting Hillary?

Robert Merrill
ConnectedWell
Published in
1 min readAug 25, 2016

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Highlighted section of toolbar for adjusting the horizontal layout/flow of text in Google Spreadsheets’ UI
Hillary Clinton Campaign Logo

I fully expect at least two comments on this post:

  • “Hey! This is proof that Google is helping Hillary win! Conspiracy theorists unite!”
  • “Hey! How dare you purport that Google is supporting Hillary by secretly influencing us with it’s UI.”

I just think it’s funny. No political gain to be made here (or interest in being involved in the drama thereof).

Besides, it could be argued that only young people use Google Docs and young people prefer Clinton anyway, so this is just preaching to the choir, ain’t it?

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Robert Merrill
ConnectedWell

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