Nozbe User Experience - we need you!
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As you very well know, we’re currently working on two major things in Nozbe:
- Native iPhone version
- Totally new from-ground-up Nozbe redesign
While our iPhone development is going very well and we’ll ask you for feedback in the due time, right now we need your help with the Nozbe redesign.
We need your help to improve Nozbe’s User Experience
We’re currently working with a professional User Experience firm to help us improve Nozbe, make it easier and nicer to use, and most of all – make it the ultimate GTD app for you – our users.
In order to make our app better – we need to know how you’re using Nozbe.
Until now, we’ve used our gut and our own way of using Nozbe to determine what’s best for you. We’ve received great email feedback but now we need more than that.
What we need
We’d like to schedule a phone interview (preferably Skype) with you – our Nozbe user where we’d see your desktop (using the Yuuguu desktop sharing software) where you’d be interviewed by the person from the User Experience firm and me – your Nozbe founder.
We want to see your desktop so that you can tell us how you’re using Nozbe. We won’t have access to your desktop – we just want to see some great Nozbe action – how you understand and use Nozbe. The interview will not last longer than 30 minutes.
We need comprehensive feedback.
You’ll have a chance to give your feedback and let us know directly what you want from Nozbe, what your expectations are and what’s bothering you about our app. We need your live-feedback.
We need both the advanced users as well as the new users who are just starting
If you’re interested send me an email with this info:
- how would you define yourself as a Nozbe user?
- long-time advanced Nozbe user
- fairly advanced user
- new user
- where do you live
- country, city
- when will you be available next week for the conversation
- times and dates next week (8-12 September)
We’ll send you a Nozbe T-shirt
Once we’ve talked to you, you’ll be sent a Nozbe T-shirt at our expense as a small thank-you for participation.
If you have any doubts or questions, let me know in the comments or simply contact us
Thanks in advance, your help and dedication means really a lot to me!
P.S. We won’t share the contents of the interview with anyone for any reason. We’ll use the interview only for our User Experience Analysis.
We’ll be choosing the interviews at our own discretion so don’t get offended if you’re not chosen for the interview. We just might not be able to interview everyone who gets in touch with us, although we’ll try.
Thanks in advance,
Michael Sliwinski
Founder, Nozbe.
Comments:
For English, use this link (changed es to en): http://www.nozbe.com/en/show/site-contact
I just sent my offer to questions@nozbe.com since the linked page was in Spanish.
Sorry guys, I was too quick with this post and too excited about it. Thanks for your offers and keep them coming :-) Just send emails to our support email: questions [at] nozbe [dot] com
I’ve sent my contribute by email; I can’t be online that week: I would like to publish it in the Forum, and I can’t login, neither an email with password is sent to me.
I would very much like it if you could link tasks to notes (and maybe, vice versa). Also, sometimes notes can pile up. Being able to archive notes would be very cool.
A free-text field to add more detail into a task would be great – so linking notes to a task seems a good way to do this. But then maybe still have notes that belong to a project too.
Michael, I know how you think about having subprojects vs tagging. I think it would be wonderful if as a user I still have the choice.
In certain cases, having the option for subprojects have been needed.
Thanks,
Edward
I use <a href=“http://eduoliveros.com/2008/09/missing-functionality-in-nozbe.html”>this trick</a> to see all my tasks and projects at one glance, I wrote this little program because it’s a functionality that I really use and it’s not implemented in the web interface.
Cheers,
Eduardo
Michael,
This is a very cool idea. I’d like to contribute but I’m on holidays. I’ve introduced my girlfriend to Nozbe and she seems so interested.
Anyway, I’d like to contribute in this comment to some features I really miss.
-Parsing messages, mails seems broken. I reported some tests in forum but got no reply about it. Project inclusion doesn’t work (at least to me)
-Tasks overview with everything in one page for a fast weekly review.
-Offline integration (maybe using Google Gears). I use to travel everyday underground, and update by email make me sort inbox again for project inclusion.
Good luck with UI redesign.
Michael,
I have been using Nozbe for several months so I guess I could be considered a new user.
My overall experience with Nozbe has been positive. The only suggestion I could think of was providing more PRINT options. It would be nice to be able to print out all of my action lists including projects.
Regards,
Jose
Houston Texas, US
Where are the iphone app screenshots?
I’ve been using the product for about six months and more frequently in the last few weeks.
First I can’t complain about the Internet interface seems like it doesn’t need a redesign to me. If you aren’t careful you could break a great product. FileZilla going from 2.2.9 to 3.0 is a great example for the less is more crowd that was a great change but for those who needed the features it was a real bomb.
I primarily use the iPhone webapp. My primary issue there is the lack of feature descriptions without going to Nozbe.com. I’d like to see a help bar or something on the main page in iNozbe. In other words information on the main Nozbe site without having to browse in and go through the resizing efforts to read items.
On both the internet and iNozbe interface a location for the task would be nice. I currently have similar work broken into multiple projects solely based on location. So a project for stores and projects for my two houses (one is a rental). Adding a location dropdown would be great. Integration with mapping software at some point would be a nice feature too. In my case location of stores out of town. For a business person locations while travelling for business.
Some of the iPhone list applications offer databases of products for faster entry. I’d love to see something like that in iNozbe, not sure how it would integrate in. but it was a great feature on those products. BTW iNozbe beat them out even without the products database.
Thanks for a great product.
One question… Sometimes, there are task or ToDo’s that are dependent on other people either calling back, or give you something, or so on. So instead of just “complete”, is it possible to assign something like “Called/Contacted”, “Check back”, “Confirm”, and finally, “Completed”? Or is it better to Put in multiple tasks for one item like “Call A for task B” “Remind A for task B” “Confirm with A for task B” and so on?
Tiny observation: buttons naming is confusing. I just wrote a not and looked for some “Save” button for quite a time. Finally I copied text to the clipboard and clicked the “New Note” button below. Whoa, it saved.
Rename those buttons to “Save Note”, “Save Action” and so on.
PS This very blog has the same problem, the button below this box would do better if it was “Save Comment”.
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The contact link is pointing to the Spanish version. Me no habla Espanol ;-)