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It would be interesting if there is a study that comprehensively measures if these pretty tools actually improves productivity in comparison to using simple text editors. My guess is they don't. My guess is people might find them fancy and pretty initially but eventually recognize that they don't actually improve efficiency or effectiveness.
It's certainly "prettier" than Trello, but I'm not sure how functional it would actual be in a real world scenario. There's no functional benefit as far as I can see to putting things in fancy-looking circles, and (I'm imagining) the usability of that interface is severely diminished as you start to get a large number of items in any particular category. A great example of how great UI doesn't necessarily equate to g…
Bingo. The whole point of Trello is to mock up some manual end-to-end process. The natural state of this is columns that consist of "Backlog, TODO, Doing, Done". More advanced versions of this look something like, "Vetting, Grooming, Backlog, TODO, Doing, Done". The circles kind of kill the whole point of a taskboard, IMO.
It would be interesting if there is a study that comprehensively measures if these pretty tools actually improves productivity in comparison to using simple text editors. My guess is they don't. My guess is people might find them fancy and pretty initially but eventually recognize that they don't actually improve efficiency or effectiveness.
You probably also advocate using shared folders to collaborate on code development too? Those darn kids and their 'innovations' ...
The point is if you masquerade a solution to a non-problem with pretty things, it just wastes everyone's time and energy.
Like I said, it would be interesting if there is a study to find out if any of these pretty task management tools actually increases productivity.
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The circles actually seems to reduce value because there is no intuitive order to each group. In some (many?) use cases for Trello, priority is important. One thing that the circle metaphor does add is nested groups, which I can see being important for a different set of use cases.
Can't you order the circles any way you like?
Here's my feedback: from an interface perspective a visual process for organizing tasks is very appealing. But things weren't as intuitive as Trello. For example: clicking a task didn't let me edit its name; it brought up a window. Clicking "new task" was my first step, when really, I have a list of groups I want to create (like in Trello)
Speed is really crucial for me in using a system like this.
I like this concept, and I think it can be improved through some more experimenting with the UI. Here's my feedback: from an interface perspective a visual process for organizing tasks is very appealing. But things weren't as intuitive as Trello. For example: clicking a task didn't let me edit its name; it brought up a window. Clicking "new task" was my first step, when really, I have a list of groups I want to creat…
Does it have dependencies? Team management can't work, in my opinion, if you have a task named "fold shirts" but it appears and is assigned before somebody "buys shirts".
Does it have dependencies? Team management can't work, in my opinion, if you have a task named "fold shirts" but it appears and is assigned before somebody "buys shirts".
Not as yet, but this is an early release of the product and we are aggressively adding new features and improvements. This is definitely something we are considering.