11–20 of 52 posts
Worst product I’ve ever used
That's a not a very helpful feedback, especially for folks that might be looking into using them. Any chance you can share more on what you don't like?
The best way to describe Asana from a product perspective would be “just because it’s complicated doesn’t mean it’s good”
Worst product I’ve ever used
That's a not a very helpful feedback, especially for folks that might be looking into using them. Any chance you can share more on what you don't like?
* No way of entering code blocks renders the product completely useless for technical teams. (JIRA also makes it particularly complicated with their "code block" element)
* The clunkiness of the heavy-weight JavaScript frontend is inducing a very negative feeling the moment I think about having to open Asana.
* The user interface breaks commonly established UX patterns: Middle click on a card doesn't open the task in a new window, as all other clickable things in a browser suggest. Cross-referencing two tickets is completely impossible (besides cloning the tab and opening two separate tasks in both)
What does filing "Confidentially" mean? How are buyers supposed to see what they're buying?
I've tried using Asana for several months, and I don't really understand how it's better than any other competing product out there? The web UI is slow and it's definitely not cheap. Is there anything about it that's "10x"?
I've tried using Asana for several months, and I don't really understand how it's better than any other competing product out there? The web UI is slow and it's definitely not cheap. Is there anything about it that's "10x"?
I had a similar experience and genuinely wondered why it was even used by anyone at all.
IIRC they had a blog post up about their brilliant NIH Javascript UI framework and if you are familiar with that kind of thing you could read between the lines and generate some good guesses about what was wrong with it.
Not that Jira is a ton better, especially with each heavier-and-worse-than-the-last redesign. Friggin' "web apps".
[EDIT] and for all that the workflow wasn't any better than anything else as far as I could tell. Our PMs who lived in it loved the draggy-droppy interface and hotkey-heavy workflow, but again, everyone (of their competitors) has that too. To me it always felt like working on someone else's messy desktop shared over VNC. I was afraid to touch anything for fear of accidentally performing some kind of write operation without noticing, and fucking things up.
I have mixed feeling about their platform. I do like the core functionality and the mobile app is decent.
However their paid "support" and "training" is an absolute joke. It was so bad that I haven't used them since I left the organization I had used them for. It's one area I would recommend investment.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a not a very helpful feedback, especially for folks that might be looking into using them. Any chance you can share more on what you don't like?
Not the original commenter, but for me, several things made me despise it: * No way of entering code blocks renders the product completely useless for technical teams. (JIRA also makes it particularly complicated with their "code block" element) * The clunkiness of the heavy-weight JavaScript frontend is inducing a very negative feeling the moment I think about having to open Asana. * The user interface breaks common…