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Meet the new Asana

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Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by fumar »

phillc73 wrote: post #8

I've struggled to really engage with Asana, when I've had to use it in the recent past. I hope these enhancements make their product better, but apart from one part-time role where I have to use it, Asana isn't my first choice. Keyboard shortcuts are good, but often forgotten and the buttons to do the same not always easily found. Formatting options are limited - I'm not aware of a wide range of Markdown being suppor…

I also found it difficult to engage with Asana and Trello (also Evernote, less so). You make a good point, its the limited nature, constraints, that stop me from using task managers for all my projects. While, they have worked for specific projects, including personal and team initiatives, my day to day to-dos don't always make it on the board. What I have found is Evernote and OneNote, are more flexible and I can dump more information in a less-structured manner. For me its all about stickiness factor...

In the last 6 months, I have gone full-ham on OneNote, and now use it for team collaboration and personal use. A big part of it is the "open" feel of a blank canvas. At the same time, I can create and save templates for tasks or projects that fall into specific work buckets. Also, for teams, OneNote is free to use and has great iOS and Android apps (webapp is fine too). My current gripe with OneNote is the lack of push-notifications of completed tasks.

Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by jtemplin »

The announcement is very enterprisey -- long, boring, not getting to the meat of the news. I couldn't get through it.

I hope this isn't a sign of where the Asana product and culture are headed.

Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by GordyMD »

The video intro to the new interface is incredible, almost mesmerising. I really like the use of the circles from the new logo to symbolise key points and draw the eye to certain things.

Was this done in-house, or by a third party?

Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by trhway »

jtemplin wrote: post #12

The announcement is very enterprisey -- long, boring, not getting to the meat of the news. I couldn't get through it. I hope this isn't a sign of where the Asana product and culture are headed.

no amount of rose colors can change the fact that it is an enterprise product, a delight of middle managers who measure progress by the total percentage of hours logged so far on all the SCRUM tasks across the department.

Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by pookeh »

I can barely see a lot of important UI now with the 'light look' (e.g. lots of buttons in task description...how do I add a follower?). How do you even pass accessibility guidelines with this?

Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by state »

I have used Asana for years always wanting to like it. It's almost what I want and it's nearly done right.

I think this is it for me though. Don't think I can look at those serifs for very long. Overall the design just feels way overwrought and without any clear organizing idea. The margins are all over the place, there are lots of controls that are way too small. The page looks messy and difficult to focus on. To what end?

For me getting things done is closely linked with focus. Shouldn't the design thinking of a company that helps people get things done reflect that? Spare me the gradients I have shit to do.

Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by juddlyon »

jliptzin wrote: post #13

I love asana, been using it for years. The only project management software that really stuck for me.

Me too, it's great for quickly capturing todos (which themselves can have todos). The Harvest integration is great, but I'd really love a Freshbooks timer button.

Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by meatysnapper »

jtemplin wrote: post #12

The announcement is very enterprisey -- long, boring, not getting to the meat of the news. I couldn't get through it. I hope this isn't a sign of where the Asana product and culture are headed.

If I was very very rich and I really hated other people, I'd start a company making miserably slow, unintuitive project management software. Say what you will about the Aussies, their software is slightly less awful.
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