Basecamp Rebrush
Als jemand, der täglich mit Basecamp arbeitet, war der jüngster Rebrush der online Projektsoftware natürlich ein mittleres Erdbeben – die gewohnte Arbeitsumgebung (schon wieder) eine andere.
Eine Überarbeitung, die mich massiv störte, war die subtilere Kennzeichnung von “privaten” Einträgen.
Jason Fried verteidigt das auf interessante Art:
A lot of our customers didn’t like the old private styles. We’d been planning on changing it for a long time but we hadn’t gotten around to it until now. We’ve actually had a fair number of complaints about it being too “loud.” A huge red textured background, a thick red bar on the left, a red image in the upper right. That’s a lot of stuff saying the same thing.A red box that says “Private” to the right of the title is sufficient. It’s concise and clear.
We’ve also added a light red bar at the top of the perma page. The bar also tells you exactly who can see it. That’s new and especially useful—before you didn’t know who had private access to a project.
Please let these changes soak in. Change is a challenge. Many of the old design elements that people are defending today were at one time called “horrible” and “terrible” and “ugly” too.
We’ve modified the Basecamp UI three times in three years. Every time we change we get an earful. And that’s fine, but it’s interesting when the interface that was at one time panned becomes the interface that people defend when a new change comes along. It’s the cycle of change.
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