I have used Asana in the past - I think their technology (Luna, or whatever it is now called) is impressive but every single client I have now days is using Slack and I was forced to convert over - I know it is a different product but it integrates with Github, CircleCi, etc. so you can basically accomplish the same thing through integration (at least it seems that way)
Meet the new Asana
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#22Those three circles swirling and flickering everywhere in the screen in the video were so distracting that I couldn't even follow what they were trying to say. I wish the video was much more straight-forward instead of being "mesmerizing".
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#23I 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 wh…
I opened this page just to write exactly the same words ... "I want to like it ...".
I've tried it at least five times, and every time I end up stopping. What's missing (IMHO) is a sense of hierarchy. Everything is the same size and common actions aren't much easier than uncommon ones, which I think leads to "page looks messy and difficult to focus on", and I agree "controls ... are way too small".
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#24Despite how crowded this category is, the options still all seem to be pretty rough.
Does anyone really like their project management software?
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#25So, tell us about the tech used? :)
Most of this was in our existing framework Luna, https://asana.com/luna, but some of the newer pieces are using React/TypeScript and the next generation of our reactive query system which we'll be talking about more in the future.
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#26Kind of like the new look, more modern but it's only a new css...
some of the polish i'd like to see:
- @ mentions in firefox that works
- link from 1 task to another, the linked task should have a mention of the link.
- loading the task detail panel is waaaaay to slow
- You don't have enough info about your sub tasks in the main view
- desktop notifications?
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#27does this #newasana twitter contest require entrants to flag their tweets as sponsored?
link: https://blog.asana.com/2015/09/celebrate-with-us-share-the-n...
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#28I have a feeling that whoever made this video wanted to shoehorn the 'Designed by Apple in California' [1] video style into their own Asana version.
It simply does not work, because it uses the dots from the logo (nothing to do with usability, as opposed to Apple who uses the dot theme as representative of touch) as the central 'play theme' and idea behind the motion of the film... Pity they were so superficial.
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#29Despite how crowded this category is, the options still all seem to be pretty rough. Does anyone really like their project management software?
I think the real problem is email. It's this antiquated technology that doesn't fit into the modern software as a service tools everyone uses to get things done. Email worked in the world of desktop apps but the snail mail paradigm email emulates is antithetical to the real-time fast paced team collaboration everyone is trying to achieve.
Yet nothing manages to replace email, we depend on email above all else and what happens is that important information about tasks leaks into email from project management software and there's no easy way for this kind of software to fold email into what they're trying to do. Email doesn't play nice with anyone, it doesn't even play nice with email servers and email clients. Yet we all use it. I doubt anything will replace email. 200 years from now space ships on their way to Vega will be sending IMAP mail messages to planet Earth.
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#30I used to use Amana, but I left it for Azendoo (and taiga).
The main reason is that it was impossible to get a cross-project (workspace) list of my to-dos and everyone's to-dos.
Checking them one by one was quite bad and slow...
I hope they fixed that, but I am far from sure...
(I know I should work on only one project, but life is less than ideal)