Fifteen Years of Keeping It Simple
DoneDone’s creator (and still lead designer and developer) looks back on 15 years of staying relevant, keeping things simple, and playing our own game.
DoneDone’s creator (and still lead designer and developer) looks back on 15 years of staying relevant, keeping things simple, and playing our own game.
Designing an application interface in today’s world is difficult. Many products offer native implementations for iOS and Android, as well as cross-browser HTML versions. Native platforms each offer their own user interface guidelines, which outline some best-practice approaches to navigation, controls, animations, and more. Apps that follow these guidelines are instantly understandable and usable by
A customer named Ben wrote in yesterday asking why the dropdowns for Fixer and Tester in DoneDone don’t allow multiple selections to assign an issue to multiple fixers or testers.My response is simple. Assign a task to a group of people, everyone will stand around watching. Assign a task to a single person, efficiency will
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When we started building the new DoneDone earlier this year, one of our top goals was to give you a way to see all issues across all your projects – one of DoneDone’s most popular feature requests. We also needed to make it easy to dive into a single project at a time, and to
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For DoneDone’s fourth birthday later this month, we’re excited to launch global search to all of our customers. Global search gives you an alternative way to sift through your list of issues. While DoneDone already gives you a number of options to mine through your issues – either through popular filters like Issues Waiting On
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Beginning Monday, I’ll be starting a 5-day blog post series introducing DoneDone, our simpler, smarter issue tracking tool (and it’s all web-based). I’ve written about it a few times in the past few months, but now we’re finally ready to release. Here’s what we’ll cover: Monday: Real-time responsibility with DoneDone Tuesday: How we handle issues
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