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by finyeates 3810 days ago
I'm very impressed, I've often thought that Pivotal / Jira / Trello wasn't well suited for more generic tasks.

Have a few points which may or may not be of use to you.

- I'm not a fan of the 'No risks. No credit card required.' subtext to the sign-up call to action. It may be just me, but when someone explicitly states there's no risks, it makes me consider that there might be risks. No need to put doubts into someones mind.

- Love the interface, really intuitive (Just thought that needed its own point)

- I think the permanent call to action to 'Upgrade Today' on the dashboard view is a little too in your face, and takes up a fair amount of real-estate which.

- The 'Add a member' option could also do with having a 'Add a team member' option (it may have it on the paid tiers, but for the free tier it would be a good call to action to upgrade)

- The difficulty field on a ticket doesn't seem like it intuitively will make sense for all tasks, perhaps as an optional field, or allow users to customise the names and values of the fields at the project level. I.e. if instead of high, medium and low priority, I wanted 'Later, Soon, Now and Yesterday' for my priorities.

- I think the Project Tasks and My Tasks could be collapsed into one column, freeing more space to work with, or maybe even a dedicated create task column. Just a filter of 'show my tasks' or 'show all tasks' would work well. Especially on the free tier it's a lot of wasted space.

- I'd shy away from using points and other metrics like that, as most of the time a 1-3 or even 1-8 scoring system becomes restrictive and not representative of the time taken to do a task, over time it just loses meaning to a user in my opinion.

And a minor issue or two:

- If I have two tasks assigned to a project, one high priority and difficult, the other low priority and easy and I complete the high priority task the 'Tasks Completed' in the project overview jumps to 75%, which isn't what i'd expect.

- The text on the 'Time Elapsed' and 'Tasks Completed' seems centred on the progress bar and not the container, and the small white font makes it hard to see.

- You can't access any of the support / terms of use etc.. without first logging out of your account.

Aside from that all I'd do is iterate a little bit on the text of the website, as it just doesn't quite bite yet.

But all in all, very good work. I've bookmarked so I can come back later and see if I can get more use out of it. :)

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Thanks so much for the feedback and taking the time to write all this down. I really appreciate it! You've made some really good points and I'll be adding them as tasks :)