If you don’t bring back teams and projects, I’m going to be switching to another project management tool, and we’ve been with you over 7 years and it’s going to be a horrible pain and headache - and still better than what your product team is putting us through.
REVERT THE LAYOUT OR BUST
There is really no need to shout with capital letters. You posted about the same thing in multiple threads, and this is not allowed on the forum. I just flagged your message, it will probably be unlisted.
Happy to discuss with you here how to work with the new sidenav.
I want to reach out one last time @Megan_Gill, I might have lacked empathy and I apologise.
Are you the champion at your company? are you under pressure because you pushed for Asana to be used, and you are now the “Asana person”? do you have user complaining to you? do you need help with helping your teammates adopt this change?
Thanks for taking the time to share this feedback with us. We truly value your insights and really appreciate you continuing to share your experience with us. As @Bastien_Siebman mentioned, please let us know if there is anything we can do to help your team adopt this update.
Please note I’ve updated the title of this thread to reflect your request to bring back the Teams and Projects tabs in the sidebar. This will allow others to upvote this specific request. We hear you on this and our product team is already exploring ways to improve it, they have commented here.
We will update this thread once we have any news. Thank you again for taking the time to speak up and share your experience with us.
Hello,
I would also like to respectfully ask that you bring back the option to display the projects by Teams. This is the primary organizational structure in our company.
I am the Asana-Champion of our organization and also consult 6 other companies (with a total of 2k+ Asana users). It is very distressing for every single company that projects can no longer be easily displayed by Team.
I would urge you to re-introduce this simple option.
Also, @Megan_Gill and @asana_power_user, please remember to vote for this change using the “Vote” button at the top of the thread.
I need the teams and projects to be navigable and in the old UX. The new UX is causing inefficiency, extra clicks, wrong screens. There is no shortage of examples of why this new layout is not appropriate, or working for customers. Stop trying to make it a user issue, this is a product failure.
We can’t adopt this update. Teams structure is the foundation of the usability. Navigating to teams via the side bar, having them listed in the side bar and quickly navigating project to project without the teams side bar changing is a UX fundamental. You’ve not only removed this navigation, but you’ve added a bunch of bloat and functions that are frankly in beta at best. How many people have to tell you the new UX is breaking work flows and productivity before you acknowledge the new layout is causing project management inefficiencies. I’d insist that your PR approach stop offering ways to work around a bad update, and figure out how to revert the side nav, or at least add the old teams/project side bar function as it was before this roll out.
I’m genuinely grateful for conversations around this topic. I work with six companies actively using Asana right now, and they all share frustration with the new navigation. Here’s what stands out to me:
These companies chose Asana specifically for its simplicity and intuitive design—and it worked. About 200 team members across these organizations include people 50+ with limited technical experience, yet they adopted Asana effortlessly. After years of building workflows around that simplicity, the navigation change has disrupted routines that were finally stable.
For users with ADHD in particular, this has created real friction. The old navigation was one of the best solutions for how their brains work. I’m hearing about lost productivity as people re-learn basic workflows.
Even more concerning: I’ve had two solid leads this month who were ready to commit to Asana. They panicked during their navigation walkthrough and decided against moving forward entirely. That’s a real cost.
I am a Services Partner and I will always speak the best of Asana, I have been with it since 2014 and I am not planning to shift tools, but I also need to listen to my clients and what they all say in common is: Keep the Workflows tab as-is with access to rules, templates, forms, and fields. Create a separate tab for new AI features. Preserve how users access Teams and Projects. You don’t have to choose between innovation and usability.
We live in a world of constant change—I get that. But why does product development so often solve for problems that don’t exist while breaking what actually works?
I’m sharing this because users deserve to be heard. Paid users especially. Not everything needs a redesign to be valuable. Sometimes what we need most is acknowledgment that the change has real costs—for people’s workflows, for accessibility, for new customer confidence.
I’m not asking for debate, I just care for my clients the same way I feel about Asana’s success.
Speaking from a personal perspective, I think this feedback is spot-on.
What do you think?
