UI change - Project tabs/buttons in tasks pushed down

After so many negative comments, I find the complete and utter silence from the Asana team a tad disturbing. I would expect at least an acknowledgment of our grievances and a promise to review them and get back to us as soon as possible.
Anyone out there agrees with me on this?

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at least we now have basic word processing features in the description and comments fields. No more typing : and guessing at emoji names and memorizing short cuts for bullet lists.

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@Chris_Sylvester Wondering whether this is actually seen by the right people at Asanaā€¦ Can you change the category to ā€œProduct Feedbackā€ instead of ā€œSite Feedbackā€? (The latter is for the asana.com website, not the product/application.)

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Respectfully, that hardly off-sets the decrease in functionality of this UI ā€œupgradeā€ā€¦

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Agree, this should be in Product/Feedback. Comments here are for community related concerns, not the product itself.

There are currently 3 related topics in Product Feedback.

Iā€™m expect Asana will have something to say on this topic sooner than later.

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I am not happy with the new change in the task field. At allā€¦

  1. To add a tag, I now have to go to ā€¦ and then choose tags. Why? Please make it visible again.
  2. To whom the task is assigned to is put lower with a unnecessary text ā€˜assigned toā€™. Also in the Due date field you see know: ā€œDue Dateā€. Why? Everybody who uses Asana knows where those field are for. Please remove it.
  3. Project and tags under the description. This is the worst of all. If you have a long description, the project and tags are not visible anymore. (I am not sure if the tags where above the description, but if it was not: it is a good idea to move up).

I read somewhere that this is maybe an A/B test. Please make me A againā€¦ :slight_smile:

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Iā€™m not happy with the new Task layout either. Primarily because vital Task data has been lowered and is sometimes out of view.

  1. Lowering additional Projects. As Paul said, itā€™s really bad when buried below a long description.
  2. Lowering Assignee and Due Date fields, which are definitely more important than a Mark Complete button.

And I canā€™t see it. What does this new Task layout improve?

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A very good question: why in the first place needed it to be changed? The lay-out was good, so why?

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Definitely agreeā€¦ second everything here and in the comment string.

another post here:

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In a recent release, the developers have moved the ā€œassociated projectā€ below the task description. Our team uses this to sort things in the project into subsections. Now I have to scroll down past the task descriptions to organize that task within the project. Please move this back to the top!!
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Thank you for your passionate feedback everyone! It sounds like this has definitely had an impact. Iā€™ve delivered the feedback to the product team. Iā€™ll let you know if/when I have any updates for you.

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Thank you for passing on this feedback. I posted separately in a new thread before I saw this one and am really hoping this is restored soon!

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Thanks @Alexis, highly appreciated! ā€” Wondering whether you can provide any kind of timeline for planned steps already?

It has been mentioned before, but perhaps you should indeed evaluate the option of rolling back this change now and redeploying it with a few adjustments later on?

As it might not be obvious to its full extent, this change negatively affects many users in their day-to-day work.

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Hi Sunny - I appreciate your thoughtfulness here. Iā€™m unable to provide a timeline about feature requests. However, I think you might be interested in how we build our product roadmap. See full details in the post here: **Read me first** How you can give feedback and what we do next

Hi all,

Iā€™m a product manager here at Asana and I wanted to hop in and give some context on these changes and address some of your feedback. First, I want to thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us. Having such an active community of users who love Asana and can give feedback on the changes we make is incredibly helpful as we work to improve Asana.

For these changes specifically, we recognize that they have felt jarring for many of you and we will take that into account as we roll out any future update. We could have done a better job communicating those changes, and we apologize for the frustration and confusion that they caused.

In all of these updates, our goal is to make it clearer for a user to understand what the information is in a task, when it needs to be completed, and how to complete it. Hereā€™s some info on how we made decisions around the changes youā€™re seeing in Asana:

When we looked to simplify the top part of the Task Pane, we decided to include the actions that were taken most frequently by Asana users, which is how we landed on the following actions available in one click:

  • Attaching files to a task
  • Adding subtasks to a task
  • Copying the task link URL to your clipboard
  • Liking a task

We also saw through our research that many first time users of Asana are very confused about how to actually complete a task. Since this is one of the core actions that every user needs to be able to take to successfully manage their work with Asana, we wanted to be sure it was crystal clear how to complete work and keep projects moving forward. While the checkmark was definitely more space efficient and consistent with the rest of the app, updating to a ā€œmark completeā€ button makes it clearer for everyone how to complete their tasks when theyā€™re done. We have observed that first-time users find this action more intuitive in the adjusted layout, and weā€™re rolling it out so that each and everyone can easily adopt Asana, and contribute to the success of their team.

Lastly, we saw through user research that people generally want to get to the heart of task content ASAP, which is why we moved the placement of the project information below the taskā€™s description. I understand from your feedback this is one of the most noticeable changes for many of you. While this definitely takes some relearning from oneā€™s initial muscle memory (trust me, it took us a while to get used to it internally at Asana as well), we hope the pain caused by the change will decrease over time. As we tested and conducted research on this change, weā€™ve seen that it does make task info clearer for many users, especially among people who are brand new to Asana.

Because people can use Asana for so many different types of work, we often rely on data and product usage insights to guide decisions like this one. Itā€™s inevitable that some Asana users, like many of you here, use different actions more frequently than others, and will have different desires for how Asana will work for their team. Change is never easy, and we donā€™t take these actions lightly. Our hope in using data to make this decision is to make this work for as many users as possible, but we do apologize for the frustration this is causing. I recognize that many of you will still feel frustrated even after reading my response, and I want to personally ensure you that weā€™ll continue to look at all the feedback and take it into account as we make future changes. I hope this little bit of context helps you see where weā€™re coming from!

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The thing is, for everyone commenting here, how many more are quietly disliking it in the background because itā€™s not in their nature to complain?

Some of the changes might be useful (e.g. those bullet pointed) but moving the project placement is, in my opinion, illogical and annoying.

While @louisā€™ reply clearly came from the right place, Iā€™m peeved that it feels like we were basically told to like or lump it.

My previous post was flagged, so apologies to anyone I offended. It wasnā€™t my intention.

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I dontā€™ like and another 8 people from my team dont like new UI of task card.
Itā€™s complecated for us. Needed information are out of view! Brrr

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Our team dont like new UI changes too.

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I am shocked with answer that we should ā€œget used to itā€, ā€œthe pain will decrease over timeā€. You are doing research with new customers and forgetting your loyal ones. I imagine this is not a quantitative research, but a qualitative one. Donā€™t you have an A/B testing for it? Canā€™t you measure how long people are taking to create a new task? Track how long it takes to click on the right place? Sorry, but itā€™s getting more complicate a super basic task in my daily life, I dont understand why you get this design solution, try another thing if you want to improve usability for new customers.

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