Creating a separate comment, but as the Asana Group PM Lead who owns and cares deeply about the accessibility of our product for all of our users, and not just for WCAG conformance - though we are the most accessible work management tool out there by far - I wanted to follow up! Asana deeply cares about building a product that is inclusive to everyone: whether you are neurodivergent, use an assistive technology, are colorblind, or your change in ability is temporary or situational. This is an area we’re deeply passionate about!
@Nikko_Mendoza is my super talented Accessibility & Design System PM (who led Asana to WCAG 2.1 AA conformance!) and we are thinking about new future design patterns that would likely benefit from input of people also interested in this thread (focus modes, toast notification settings, UI density settings). We’d love to hear from you if you have 30 minutes! Schedule time with us if you’d like to share more: Calendly!
it’s always great to see how people adapt tools like Asana to fit their personal work styles. Some really thoughtful ideas here that others might find helpful too.
I have a bunch of reference tasks and other non-actionable tasks assigned to me all sitting in a single section, and it’s overwhelming. These are super helpful solutions:
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Amazing read, I love it when people have a “system” and use My Tasks properly!
I had 2 feedback to share if I may!
Can I challenge the fact that “low” shouldn’t have any colour, instead of having this eye-catching green? (your “Everything I need” project seems to have a orange Low, which is worse I believe
You did mention task-auto promotion rule, I hope you are also using “task is no longer blocked → move to Recently assigned”?
Hey @Bastien_Siebman, thanks for commenting! Of course, discussing different points of view and approaches is always helpful.
Personally, I find the green kind of reassuring, like ‘it’s here, but no need to stress about it.’ But I’m definitely open to testing the no-color approach for low priority. I’ll give it a try and let you know how it goes!
For that specific project within the ‘Everything I need’ portfolio, I used analogous colors for low, medium, and high priorities because the field has other priority options beyond those (even though they don’t show up in this view). I needed more options and I didn’t want to add another custom field just for them, so I added them to the same custom field and used color groups to distinguish them: analogous colors for the usual high, medium, and low options, and complementary colors for the additional options to set them apart. But I totally agree, the color choices for that field might be a little intense!
I did warn you folks that my brain’s got some weird wiring, haha
I have to be honest here… No, I wasn’t using it, and I don’t know why! But I’ll definitely set that up now! Thanks for the awesome tip!
- I wanted to follow up! Asana deeply cares about building a product that is inclusive to everyone: whether you are neurodivergent, use an assistive technology, are colorblind, or your change in ability is temporary or situational. This is an area we’re deeply passionate about!
But I’ll definitely set that up now! Thanks for the awesome tip!