This is the English translation of a podcast about NoCode and Automation Tips, originally recorded in French. Learn more on the speaker at https://seb.fourault.fr 😉
Sébastien Fourault | Automatisez votre travail avec BrowserFlow - Astuces de Pros
Thanks a lot for the invitation Dominique, I love your podcasts where I always learn a lot.
I'm Sebastien Fourault, former Product, Web and UX expert at Google, and User Experience consultant.
My favorite quote? "A user interface is like a joke, if you have to explain it, it may not be that good" 😁
In today's episode of the Pro Tips podcast, I share with you one of my secret tips to be 4 times faster than your competitors and impress all your colleagues.
I'm going to tell you how to never do a repetitive task again in your life, and, from a little known tool called BrowserFlow.
Let's contextualize the problem a bit. It's a Friday night, it's 10pm in a deserted open space. Julien is in charge of an e-commerce website that sells customizable Christmas t-shirts. The holiday season is coming soon and to make his offers stand out, he and his team decided to add in the description of all the products the mention "a free mug for the purchase of 3 t-shirts".
The idea seemed good at 10am this morning when they took this decision. However, they may not have taken into account that the site had more than 300 references.
So it's our unfortunate Julien who had to do this thankless task, and who since half a day, has been trying to open each product sheet one by one, go to the description tab, click on the "edit text" button, add the mention "free mug", click on save, and... start all over again! Again and again.
End of the situation.
Anyone who thought "Oh, that reminds me of my 3rd grade internship", you're starting to see where I'm going with this.
If, like me, you're a slacker, and you dream of only spending time on things you really like, then open your ears wide.
There is a family of software, often called under the barbaric name of "RPA" Robotic Process Automation, whose utility is simply to take over your mouse and your keyboard, and to click on your behalf, to copy/paste on your behalf, to navigate on a site on your behalf, to monitor sites on your behalf, to make coffee on your behalf. Okay, I'm just kidding about the coffee 😅
As you will have understood, we are talking about a robot, so it is 100x faster than us. And it doesn't need coffee to work fast and well!
Among these tools for automating unpleasant tasks, we can mention the giants UIPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, Power Automate by Microsoft, IBM or SAP also have theirs.