V4.0 Sidebar Mayhem
Nathan Boyer
Why does Home now have its own sidebar that includes Spaces, Chats, All Tasks etc., but then those same locations/menus are repeated in the main sidebar RIGHT BESIDE the Home sidebar? Home needs to be more focused. Why would I want All Spaces and All Tasks listed in my curated Home page? I should
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the focused Home to the broader Spaces/Everything to access outside information.This new UI is going to be super confusing for my older users that want one straightforward way to access each item and don't want to have to customize three different menus to get a working layout. The default interface needs to be WAAYYYY simpler. It was still confusing me after a day, and I'm good with software navigation.
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Natalie Williams
Testing 4.0 reminds me of the quote from Steve Jobs "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential."
Moving from 2.0 to 3.0, the UI became more cluttered, with more space wasted, and more clicks needed for navigation. Now with 4.0, that's all been increased even further.