Oof! This might be a deal breaker for me. The previous bright colors were one of the core reasons I liked Asana, it made checking tasks off fun and exciting. Now it just feels like some boring Microsoft office product. Bring back that zest Team Asana, or create multiple theme options.
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That’s a great idea, Oliver. They typically provide a survey/feedback form for many functionalities so all they need to do is add one for the new colors.
It seems that they have already decided to switch to the new sleepy colors and do not care about what we think. I have already seen Asana ads with the new color theme.
If all Asana users knew that this forum and thread exists, you would see the comments count in the thousands, not hundreds. I realize that change is difficult, and I am all for change, but something is wrong when a PM tool makes you feel sleepy and dread looking at it. We can’t possibly be the only ones feeling this way.
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Just like others here, I was rather shocked and annoyed than just surprised about the new colours. The first thing I tried to do was to immediately re-assign bright colours again before the new week starts. I was a little angry about “Why do I have to do this?! Why did they take away my colours I had carefully assigned to each of my fields?!”…
“…but so be it! Let’s change them back and move on!”, I told myself. But then I realized: you completely took away signaling colours?!?! I can’t cange them back!?? Why? Why? Why?
We need bright and signaling colours for some tasks! The current ones are no colours. They are different types of grey with a hint of colour in them. On some screens they aren’t even distiguishable!
Keep offering this palette, if you want! But please give us the chance to select our own signaling colours again!
I can’t even say “I will look for a different solution, if you don’t so this.” Because Asana contains my work. I depend on it and with this palette you took away a function (Yes, I see bright colours as a functionality!) that was essential. So please give us back what we “bought”.
In a way you sold me a car I liked and changed it’s colour afterwards. If I had done this, wouldn’t you not only return it but ask me bring me the orignial one back, even from another car dealer, if I couldn’t produce it by myself anymore?
Please realize: You took something away from your users! Give it back!
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The new colours are AWFUL!! What were they even thinking!?
We fee the same, the new colours look dull and lifeless and are creating a negative experience. I think we should be able to toggle between both colour options, dull and bright and also have the option to be able to add custom colours via a hex code. This would mean we could ad the brand colours of the project we are working on for that client which would be extremely useful.
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Could you please stop running some kind of live experiment while your users and paying customers (!) are trying to work in a productive way. For a productivity tool like Asana colors aren’t just a matter of look & feel. They are part of the core of workflows. I am currently member of 10+ Asana accounts. The roll out is not even consistent and I am currently changing back and forth between the old and the hideous new color palette.
The new color palette does not have anything to do with modern interface design. You are simply ignoring scientific evidence, best practices and general recommendations for color brightness, contrast, etc for screen interfaces.
A large part of my companies daily work has to do with UX design. At the same time we highly depend on tools, that have a high usability and accessibility. This is not just some kind of “having a hard time getting used to it”.
If you stay with the updated color palette I will strongly consider to test alternative tools and probably cancel the plans for a number of businesses I own or are involved with. This is how bad this update is.
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Same feeling here, I don’t like new colors, I think they are depressing.
Visually, the old colors were better for readability and also brighter.
Why don’t you let users to choose their own colors?
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A consistent user experience would not include users logging in to find that the interface looks completely different. I really don’t like this at all and it makes me want to no longer use Asana. Thank you for sharing the update, but please pass on that these colors are not appealing to users.
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We mostly use the calendar view and don’t love this change. The light blue looks like a completed green task, and the colour scheme looks dreary. I’m a graphic designer and I don’t know what this colour scheme is trying to accomplish by being both pastel and desaturated.
What I appreciate the least is the poor communication with this rollout. I wasted a bunch of time trying to figure out if a colleague had accidentally turned on a low contrast setting. Just a popup saying “Hey! We’re trialing a new colour scheme. Here’s a link to more info” would have been really useful.
Not sure why having a “consistent user experience” is particularly necessary aside from having a singular palette per team. I think a more valuable experience is not feeling depressed by drab colours when I look at my work load.
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I got the new colours this morning and I hate them. Really dull, hard to differentiate. Surely if people want dull and dreary, give them some additional colours to play with. But in the meantime, I’d like my colours back please.
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The new colours are awful. The old ones were one of my favourite things about Asana. I have task headers for the board views designed around this and its going to mean a bunch of work to change all of these. Please let us have the option to return to vibrant.
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The new colours make it hard to differentiate between tasks. One of the big reasons I decided to use asana was the awesome vibrant colour palette. Seriously thinking of leaving asana for a competitors with much more vibrant colours because it’ll save us time, being able to glance at things and tell them apart is one of the big reasons I’m using a project management tool.
When I logged in and saw this I just felt upset. The new colours are drab and depressing. Please give us the option to change it back.
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Nope, please change it back. I’m literally considering moving my team to a different platform. YEP, just because of the colors!
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I cant see the differentiation between week and weekend in timeline view. Please revert back to what it used to be
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Hi Asana team, like other people mentioned, please give users an option to either choose bright or muted colors (or just add the old ones as well, is that possible?). My entire team got frustrated by the sudden change in colors and the murky/sad feeling it gives them.
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I really don’t like the new colors, I thought there was a big with my screen. It is hard to differentiate them. Can I go back to the old ones please???
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Perhaps a bit of an overreaction, but respectfully these new colors make me want to vomit, and promptly switch over to Monday (on Monday morning) . As a graphic designer, I would consider this a huge misstep in part of what made your product fun to use. What’s the point of having an RGB monitor when CMYK color space is being used. The use case for asana is digital form, not print form.
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I agree, the colours are horrible. There’s so many people complaining about them on the announcement post. It’s ruined the user interface. I loved Asana because it was easy to tell the difference between the colours, which meant I could differentiate between tasks easily. Now its all a washed out mess.
I really hope they bring the original colours back.
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I noticed this just now and I believe it tells, what I think about it, that I tried to start Asana again, hoping that it would fix this problem.
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Today, my Asana tag colors changed to this bland, boring muted set of colors – like someone put a big grey overlay over each one.
Why do the tag colors keep changing and can you please make them less ugly? Or at least have a setting for “Bright” vs “Muted” tag colors by account? I want them to be bright and eye-catching.
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