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Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by ne0n »

enraged_camel wrote: post #60
ne0n wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slack and Asana are completely different, I'm not sure how you can say they accomplish the same thing. Slack is a group chat and Asana is for task management. My company actually uses both, and Asana is integrated with Slack. We can create Asana tasks directly from a Slack conversation and assign them to someone. As a software developer, ideally I want to be using Jira. We're a small company of 8 and decided we neede…

I'm in the same boat as the parent: ALL my clients use Slack, and none of them wanted to use Asana, so I gave up. Sure, Asana does task management... but that's about all it does. Slack is a lot more casual, and you can create channels for each project and have conversations there about who will be doing which task. Internally, we actually use Trello for task management. Honestly, it's far superior to Asana in terms…

Well, yeah, you have to use the right tool for the job. You don't use a task management tool to chat with clients.

You find Trello easier to use and more flexible than Asana? I actually find the exact opposite. You do task management for your entire company with Trello?

Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by mattei »

state wrote: post #17

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…

I feel there are too many controls without a sense of hierarchy. I get lost knowing which sub list of which task under which project I'm looking at. Plus with the amount of controls there are I'd expect it to be more powerful.

Likewise - I really want to like it.

Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by mholt »

I really like their use of material design in their video. It's not the "Google-esque" material design but it follows the principles. I think that's what is intended and it is indeed very appealing and pleasing.

Re: Meet the new Asana

#65

Post by cwilkes »

shaanr wrote: post #27

does 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...

Wow is that painful to read

I https://asana.com

I had to use Asana a year and a half ago for a side project, it was on par with Rally as being the biggest steaming pile of poo I've ever had to use. Hello world-type ticketing systems were better than it.

Having said that maybe the new asana is better. Hopefully there is someone out there giving Jira competition.

Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by simple10 »

The new Asana design looks a lot better but still feels like it's lacking hierarchy. Kudos to the Asana team though. Big step forward.

We switched from Asana to https://dapulse.com/ awhile back and have been pretty happy with dapulse. Easy navigation, ability to customize status boards, and really opinionated (in a good way) support videos on how to use time-based project management for teams. Not sure if many people on HN are aware of the product, but worth giving it a spin.

Re: Meet the new Asana

#67

Post by enraged_camel »

ne0n wrote: post #61
enraged_camel wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the same boat as the parent: ALL my clients use Slack, and none of them wanted to use Asana, so I gave up. Sure, Asana does task management... but that's about all it does. Slack is a lot more casual, and you can create channels for each project and have conversations there about who will be doing which task. Internally, we actually use Trello for task management. Honestly, it's far superior to Asana in terms…

Well, yeah, you have to use the right tool for the job. You don't use a task management tool to chat with clients. You find Trello easier to use and more flexible than Asana? I actually find the exact opposite. You do task management for your entire company with Trello?

We have a team of about 10 people. Yeah, we use Trello for the whole team.

Re: Meet the new Asana

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Post by dcposch »

state wrote: post #17

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…

Why is the top post on every single HN story negative?

We have to stop chugging the haterade.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation w/ Asana & have no strong opinions about the redesign

Re: Meet the new Asana

#69

Post by reitanqild »

state wrote: post #17

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…

Funny how totally different people are:

I can read comic sans, arial, times no problems. I don't care or even notice as long as my programming font lines up. Margins inconsistent by two pixels? No problem as long as the layout is overall consistent (logical hierarchies are somehow obvious.)

You sound like you work in UI/UX and I would wish people could care more about things that do matter to me, so here is a list of what I would like:

  * not everyone has been at all the meetings and know how 
  "obvious" everything is - make things discoverable
  * not everyone use the computer the same way - by all 
  means make it easy to click and I don't expect vim or 
  emacs keybindings in web apps but don't forget tabbing 
  order.
  * not everyone can see all colors - I also like nice 
  colors but I don't want to miss out because I cannot 
  see all shades of green

Re: Meet the new Asana

#70

Post by misiti3780 »

ne0n wrote: post #61
enraged_camel wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the same boat as the parent: ALL my clients use Slack, and none of them wanted to use Asana, so I gave up. Sure, Asana does task management... but that's about all it does. Slack is a lot more casual, and you can create channels for each project and have conversations there about who will be doing which task. Internally, we actually use Trello for task management. Honestly, it's far superior to Asana in terms…

Well, yeah, you have to use the right tool for the job. You don't use a task management tool to chat with clients. You find Trello easier to use and more flexible than Asana? I actually find the exact opposite. You do task management for your entire company with Trello?

I, also, use Trello over Asana on most projects
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