Introducing our new Spreadsheet-Inspired List View!

@Marie, and while we’re at it, can you help me access the feature that enables you to switch between Board and List view as well? These are features my team has been asking for!

This is honestly an awful update. I really appreciated the clean layout that we had previously and if I had to add fields, it did so in a beautiful, and minimal way where I could see all my pertinent information on one screen. An overview of payments or tasks that needed to be done and when.

Also section headers were clearly defined before and now they are not, they almost look like just another task.

Please revert to the old one this new update is disrupting my workflow and really unhappy with the way it looks. As a designer and organized person, the number one thing i hate most is something looking like clutter. If I want clutter, I can use an excel sheet.

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i feel the same way

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ya, these updates have made Asana super clunky and more time consuming

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My paid account isn’t showing up yet on my account. The free version is showing. Any word on the update?

On an forum note, why does everyone comment every time a new feature is added, everyone hates it? It takes 21 days to learn a new feature and get use to it. There could be a reason why the UI is being adopted, for a bigger strategy plan. Just noticing this every time I come in this forum. I don’t mind change, in fact I’m a geek when it comes to new features, As long as it makes sense I’m good.

@Katriel_Friedman, I’ve replied to you on the relevant thread ( Fields option is missing from the new project toolbar )

@olson.dan The new view is currently available to 50% of our users, and we’re hoping to make it available to everyone over the next couple of days, so you should have access to it soon!

@Adrienne_McCue, we’re rolling out updates per domain (and not per user account);, this explains why you might have access to the new view in one space and not in the other. We’re hoping to roll out the new List view to all our customers over the next couple of days, so it should soon be available across all your spaces!

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This is the first time I’ve actually written on this community and it’s simply because of how frustrated I am at this new update. One of the key reasons for us using Asana over one of the many other project management tools (trust me, I’ve tried almost all of them!!) was the simplicity of it’s interface.

Having previously used a tool that was primarily set up to look almost speadsheet like, and making an active choice to move away from this ‘old’ style of formatting, it’s so disappointing to see Asana now introducing this. I don’t see where the requirements have been to make this radical change?

The interface, with all the fields we need to be shown, now no longer fits on a screen without scrolling right. This is incredibly frustrating when screen sharing or presenting a meeting.

It now feels much more clunky to quickly update a field, which we use a lot, and to move things about in their categories, which we also use a lot. All of the fields are hard to see. I see that this update is supposed to make tasks easier to look at, but I would argue that it is now the exact opposite.

Sadly, to say i’m disappointed is a huge understatement. I can only hope that changes are made soon to rectify how messy this now is.

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I recently updated to the “new” asana look/layout and would like to revert back to the old look.

Reasoning; I need to see the “tags” on all tasks at once.

Any help would be appreciated.

Bests,

VF

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Figured it out in the custom fields tab!!! Thank you.

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Yet again, thanks for rolling out a major change to the product without any advance notice to the users. There are plenty of quirks about the new list view that have had a negative impact on our productivity, of which I’ve submitted feedback about. I think major changes like these should be more opt-in and not forcefully done with no way to go back until the problems are addressed.

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I 1000% support this and am just waiting for the day it will go back
utterly gutted.

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Love the new view!

  1. When will it be available in My Tasks?
  2. Also it would be great to be able to expand/collapse subtasks in the left table view!
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I absolutely hate this new view - can’t view useful information on tasks while viewing a task. Used to be able to see task tags/projects/due dates while still having a single task open. Now, you just get the list of tasks and have to close the task you’re working in to see all the nice tags/projects/due dates on the tasks.

Super frustrating.

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I second people being frustrated about a forced update that will absolutely have a negative impact on our performance. Actions like this make us loose trust on the future direction of Asana (also lack of responses on highly sought features such as markdown support). The new view is completely half baked and on some levels objectively worse - if you look at eye movement needed to gather information per task (especially if you use tags). As others have mentioned one of the main competitive advantages of Asana was simplicity which is something you are eroding with these kind of updates.

My biggest question is: What would the team of Asana need to be persuaded that they need to at least partially roll back this UX disaster?

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Please provide an option to return to old view.

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I am of the opinion that you should allow users to customize their workflows by having the ability to bring back the detail of a hidden column as it was in the previous UI. That means we sometimes do not want to see a whole column just because in within dozens of tasks only one has a special custom Tag. This is annoying.
I propose we, as users, could hide a column and make it appear as an inline tag.
Above all: KISS! This update goes against that design rule.

Also, as a consideration on your change process, I would also suggest you follow a period of adaptation by allowing users (and whole companies) to select legacy UI while testing the new changes.

Rolling surprises like this to whole enterprises that base their workflow on your solution might cause more harm than good. Google is a good example on how this process should work - remember they still have the option for plain text gmail and up until some time ago they were testing a new UI which they decided to not roll out. They way they did it, since it was completely different from the previous UI, was by giving users options (have a look here: Here's how to switch to the new Gmail design | TechRadar ).

There is a huge cost on deciding for one UI: you will need to accommodate two types of users: the ones who want to stay on the old UI and the ones eager to use the new (just because).

  • Ask your engineer team to figure out the scroll of the new excel list, it’s wrong.

Hope you figure out how to navigate this turmoil you generated.

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We’re using the list view for simple To Do Lists – which means, we only need one column. As we also have a project with a huge kanban board, we need to display Asana on big monitors in full screen. Guess what happens in the new list view? Huge empty lines across the whole screen!

How is this an improvement? If I could at least adjust the column width I could maybe find a way to emulate the old view, but I can’t.

This is a huge step back from a clear design to a cluttered design. If I’d want a spreadsheet, I’d use a spreadsheet.

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100% agree, I use it for simple checklists and it looks terrible on my 27" screen.

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Hate the new way it looks, like most do not like this spreadsheet type view. I also picked Asana for it’s simple view etc. Spent a long time looking for the right app and now completely disappointed by this step back.

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