(Nozbe 2.0) Design scoop - a beautiful productivity app coming soon
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I’ve shared with you the wireframes of Nozbe 2.0 design more than a month ago.
Now, we’ve practically finished the design of Nozbe and we are working towards integrating the design with the Nozbe 2.0 features.
How will new Nozbe look like?
While I can’t reveal everything as we’re now integrating design, I can show you at least some parts of the new look, here goes:
Let me explain some of the details:
1 – New Projects tab with a nice and handy “New” button to quickly add a project anytime, anywhere.
2 – New way of showing actions, with great nicely designed “tick” for checking off items and avatars of users who created/modified the action
3 – Tiny calendar that will help you plan your week and days, handy for dropping off actions and assigning them new date
4 – Contexts tab with “new” button, similar to the “projects” tab.
5 – Beautifully-designed completed action that blends into the background.
More to come soon…
We are finally aiming to have the new Nozbe ready by the end of July but the exact launch date will be announced soon on this blog.
Hope you’re as excited as I am… I love the new design and can’t wait to have it online!
What do you think?
How do you like the new design so far? Any thoughts? Suggestions? Make sure to let me know in the comments!
Technorati tags: nozbe, gtd, design, ux, usability, productivity
Comments:
Design looks good, but really needs to be released with an updated iPhone client.
The new UI looks very refreshing…can’t wait! I’ve always felt that the project list on the right was a bit unnatural. Glad to know the list will be moved to the left. Nice touch for the small calendar. Could you also include the week nummber? My company uses fiscal week number exclusively for all target dates.
Looks great. I’m a bit disappointed at the new timeline, as we keep pushing out another month. I agree that the iPhone app needs work. Although that is probably a lot to ask since I know you guys are focused on developing the web app, the iPhone piece is a critical component to my workflow. Again, I think it looks awesome….just taking too long (again, from a user, not developer standpoint). Thanks for sharing
I’d like to put in a vote for the web application (not the iphone) and say that I too am disappointed at yet another time-slip. I seem to remember something new (v.2) was promised at the end of last year – since when it seems to have slipped on a monthly basis, probably because everyone has new ideas and Michael and team try to keep everybody happy. This blog serves well as a teaser, but you can only string people along for just so long – maybe I’m not the only one getting restless. Please let’s have v.2 finalised pdq and leave further modifications for v.3.(end-of-2009?).
Can we have collaboration by Context? I have different people in my team as Contexts, so I’d like to share all actions (and notes) with them under their context, rather than (or as well as) sharing projects Does that make sense/
On a positive note: I like what I see about v2!
On a critical note: I agree with Nick. This project seems to have some serious scope creap! The new design and maybe a few new features would have been good enough. Then put new features in 2.5 or 2.1 or 3.0… Missing a release deadline by 6 month’s doesn’t make anyone happy. the longer it goes, the exponentially better the product has to be to justify the missing deadline and to meet end users expectations(happiness factor). Learn from others mistakes, cut off the feature fat and get the product out. Then do another upgrade in 2 to 6 months with more new features.
@Nick and @James
You’re both definitely right. The whole Nozbe 2.0 revolution totally overwhelmed me and the team and I’ve set too high-up expectations without actually taking into account how much stuff needs to get done to make it work.
The good news is, we have the project under control, we have the designs ready and we’re actually closing the project and we’ll be launching Nozbe 2.0 soon.
I had to postpone some of the features for August/September, but in the launched Nozbe 2.0 you’ll have all the features of Nozbe classic and Nozbe 2.0 beta combined in a very beautiful and elegant interface.
Guys, thanks for your support! I’m really happy to know I’ve got such great users behind me :-)
As a business owner I have to always remember to keep my desire to please the customer in check and keep it balanced against the inevitable fact that sh*t happens. I been oft reminded that it’s better to under promise and over deliver.
Your openness here is to be lauded, but I agree with the comments regarding scope creep, but also your customer communication in general.
Looking forward to the (long awaited) Nozbe 2.0 :-)
What I would like to see from now on is some kind of roadmap, where major features are planned.
For example: offline web access : 30.09.2009, iPhone app update: 31.08.2009, etc.
Afraid I have been badly burnt by the scope and timeline creep of the Nozbe 2.0 development.
Rollout of Nozbe to my entire programme team as their central productivity tool has been put on ice. Michael’s closing of the 2.0 project therefore comes as the best possible news.
Meanwhile I have, instead, been rolling out GTD telecoaching for my managers by David Allen’s own coaching team.
This has been an excellent investment in deeper understanding of the pure GTD methodology. I am hoping that this foundation will pay back dividends when my current tool of choice, Nozbe 2.0, is finally here to take the GTD methodology into the heart of my programme team.
Only some reservations around Nozbe as that perfect tool remain but I’ll reserve final judgement until I see the “release” version of Nozbe 2.0 – I DO have very high hopes for it. More power to your elbow, Michael!
I just wanted to say, thanks for the post Michael. It is good to hear that you have it under control. And I like that you respond to people’s comments! Considering we are in an age so many large companies with horrible customer service. It reminds me that not everyone is like that.
Thanks for the heads up guys, we’re working hard to make Nozbe 2.0 happen I just posted an update on our efforts. Let’s hope we can make this happen!
Looking forward to the new design! Keep up the good work.
I love the new stuff you shared so far and am quite excited for the launch.