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If I was the product manager, I would have made the new UI the default and the old UI a poweruser setting.
> The new Asana is designed to give you a feeling of calm and focus (ahhh…). When you first start a project, it looks like a simple sheet of crisp, white paper. But as you work, elements animate and light up in delightful ways (oooh…). When you complete tasks and get results with your team, Asana celebrates with you—and sometimes a flying unicorn does too. Does anyone else find this tone off-putting? I think it's the…
I'm probably jaded with having tried 100 project management tools in the last decade (including Asana), but it seems designed to appeal to the kind of clueless management that will dictate Asana to his subordinate teams while being too high up the chain to actually use it (classic Enterprise software problem I know). For those in the trenches, the aesthetics of a tool are all but irrelevant—once you start using the tool it's the functionality that matters and how it looks completely fades into the background.
Despite how crowded this category is, the options still all seem to be pretty rough. Does anyone really like their project management software?
JIRA for QA/Ticket management/Sprint planning Confluence for Wiki/documenting Slack for team comms Trello for higher level business planning (org, not projects)
Has worked very well over here (300+ sized business)
I am a big fan of Trello for their simple column view. I've found it to be the most efficient way to understand the state of any of my projects with just a glance. I've wanted to like Asana for a while, but I always get annoyed by the inability to visualize the lists. Seems like the status quo is unchanged.
When we tried Asana we were never even able to get buy-in from the whole organization, so I can't say for sure how it ultimately would have worked out, but it certainly seemed to lend itself to too many people dumping too many tasks on other people without awareness or respect for overall priorities and the value of focus and procedural workloads for engineers. Perhaps this is a unique problem to tech startups that are only 30% engineers/designers, but in my mind it weighs heavily.
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 wh…
Despite how crowded this category is, the options still all seem to be pretty rough. Does anyone really like their project management software?
> Does anyone really like their project management software? I've been a JIRA user for 10 years+. Flirted with Redmine, Asana, Trello, Pivotal. Recently Atlassian pushed me over the edge, and I've started migrating my projects to YouTrack. Really impressed so far; been using it with one project for about 4 weeks. I haven't come across a "how do I..." yet that doesn't have an answer.
Despite how crowded this category is, the options still all seem to be pretty rough. Does anyone really like their project management software?
After trying dozens of personal productivity tools for web/mobile/desktop (and writing my own Asana clone[1]), about 2 years ago I settled on Trello. I use it every single day, many times a day. I find it's the perfect balance of flexibility and simplicity for me. Plus it's free. Having said that, when I've tried using Trello with teams, I tend not to like it nearly as much. I think the Hard Problem with team product…
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After trying dozens of personal productivity tools for web/mobile/desktop (and writing my own Asana clone[1]), about 2 years ago I settled on Trello. I use it every single day, many times a day. I find it's the perfect balance of flexibility and simplicity for me. Plus it's free. Having said that, when I've tried using Trello with teams, I tend not to like it nearly as much. I think the Hard Problem with team product…
Try out wiplo.com, I made it for this specific purpose (team + personal use)