Kaitrin Cox / Selected work
Tables Redesign
Zapier Tables. Tables used to look like a spreadsheet, and people treated it like one. This redesign puts automations where people can find them.
Roles: Lead, Co-design, Frontend.
- Role: DRI, frontend
- Team: Zapier Tables
- Rollout: December 2025 to May 2026
How I led it
I was on this from the first plan to launch. At the start I worked out how we’d work together, and I kept the status up to date even when we were behind, so the people above us knew where things stood.
When the deadline got tight, I told stakeholders, cut what we couldn’t finish, and flagged the risks. We fixed every high-priority bug before rollout, and then I owned the rollout and presented it.
What I built
Some of the frontend I wrote myself and some I built with other engineers. I designed parts of the UI too, working with the designer, and pushed to keep it consistent with our design system. Here’s what I worked on:
- Top bar and side panels
- Filter and sort pills, and the hidden fields menu
- Bulk actions panel and field manager
- Record details and the automations panel
- Views menu and pagination
- Tables skills and tools for Copilot
- Getting-started page
Key views
- Top bar and bulk actions — The new top bar and toolbar sit above the grid. Selecting records brings up a floating bar with bulk actions, including automating them.
- Tables skills for Copilot — Copilot is shared across Zapier. We added Tables skills and tools to it, so it can add records once you confirm and suggest what to automate next.
- Filters — Filters open from the toolbar and apply to the selected view.
- Filter and sort pills — Active filters show up as pills on the toolbar, so you can always see what’s applied.
- Bulk edit — Editing several records at once warns you clearly before making a change that can’t be undone.
- Automations panel — Automations get their own panel beside the table, with recommendations for that table.
- Field manager and field setup — One side panel shows the table’s whole structure, and field setup happens in a panel of its own.
- Views — The Views menu lists saved views with their filters and hidden fields, and you can describe a new one in words.
- Getting started — A new table opens with suggested starting points. The Copilot prompt on this page is a shared component.
Related work
Full text: /llms-full.txt. Contact: hello@kaitrin.dev.