It appears some of my team are on a test rollout to replace the pill shape with a rounded rectangle shape for custom field options.
The rounded square shape is aesthetically unappealing and distracting.
It’s way too harsh and it’s making it quite difficult to focus on our lists.
Personally I’d like to have only the pill shape but if you are wanting to keep the rounded rectangle, could we have the option to toggle between the two and can we at least have left and right padding on it?
@Elyse_Hendry - welcome to the forum! That’s currently an A/B test that Asana is running. I think the intent is to open up more space on the pill to clip less text for longer field options. It’s an active test (i.e., they’re gathering feedback and haven’t choses a future path yet) so hopefully they’ll take this post into account.
I’ve noticed that all my status fields in Asana are now formatted in boxes. Is that something that I can manually change in Asana on my end to appear how it used to appear last week? I see from past posts, this was in the AI-Beta stage in April 2024, wondering if this is an Asana-wide change now or if I have the ability to revert it back to how it used to be.
Hi @Melissa_McEwen1, welcome to our Community Forum. This is an ongoing A/B test and we don’t have an ETA for conclusion yet. There’s an existing feedback thread on this topic, and I’ll be merging your post with that discussion so you can follow any updates there. 
I highly agree. Ideally it’d just be the pill shape.
Tho we understand that it’s likely a helpful backend change in terms of performance, visually, the pills are much better and make the view very appealing. The rounded rectangles look awkward and I speak on the behalf of my entire team. We’d definitely prefere the pill version.
If truly necessary, a toggle would be very nice.
I find the new square shape for the enum / dropdown options somewhat distracting. Especially the padding makes it a lot harder to read than it was before in my opinion.
I’ve also only heard negative feedback from my team members about it.
A toggle to change between versions would add quite a bit of complexity and would it make it harder going forward to test for both style versions I assume.
Ideally I would like to see it being reverted back to how it was.
Perhaps on the positive side, the new square shape for @ mentioning names in comments seems fine to me, although I still think the round ones were more visually pleasing there too.
Definitely do not prefer the new shape, please keep the previous pill shaped version, thanks!
Some of our team is also seeing the rounded square chips and agree with the others here - they don’t flow well visually, and it’s harder to read the text due to varied margins on the sides vs the top of the shape. We strongly prefer the pill shape!
Our team members who have received this test/update are complaining that the look is making things harder to see and work around. I personally still have the pill shapes but have already heard many complaints from others regarding the rectangles.
I like the pill shape much better, please bring it back or rather keep it).