We recently revamped our homepage + added an intro tutorial, so it'd be great to get feedback from you guys. What do you think of the signup process? What about the product, UI, and features? Do they make sense? Did you run into any bugs? etc
Thanks!
http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2011/05/quick-fix-up-redesign-o...
Also your call-to-action button ("Try it free") and the text above it need to be on the right, not the left. On the left you should have a screenshot of your service or a video.
Actual product wise, I like the look. Love the yellow, like the header. Unique and different yet predictable and usable. There's something odd about having breadcrumbs up there on the right and the tab bubbles centered but I'm going to give it a chance to grow on me.
I really like the guided tour. The first tutorial though, "We created a team for you", "Yeah", "Go ahead and rename it" should all be in one speech bubble instead of 3. And I suggest avoid casual lanuage like that. I've seen other startups do it and it just looks really awkward and forced. One startup had a "People kind of like us" header with testimonials underneath. "kind of" like you? I just don't think language like that belongs on something as massively used as a tutorial or landing page.
On the project task page I really think you should switch the placement of the "New Task" button and the search box. Search boxes are always expected to be on the right and I feel the new task button naturally should be the first thing you see. The average user without a doubt will create new tasks MUCH more often than searching through tasks. So naturally new task should be seen first. All the "add new ____" buttons and associated buttons should be on the left I think. That's usually the default place where they are.
Lastly when I uploaded a picture of myself, my picture wasn't completely square and it ended up being re-sized incorrectly and now looks squished. It should be center cropped.
When I hover over different date boxes on the calendar my mouse arrow should turn into a hand and that date box should subtly highlight.
Amazing job though. I really like the simplicity. I wouldn't pay $25/month but it is a very nice service that's easy to understand.
It's funny that when you've been building (and using) a site for a long time, everything about it starts to feel natural. I've never even considered moving the "New Task" button to the left before.
The good thing about asking others to check it out is we can get a fresh perspective and draw a line between what's actually good and what we've simply gotten used to.
Also, I don't want to invite any teammates like the tutorial says, you should be able to skip that one. Especially when there is no way to stop the tutorial.
Good point about the last step of the tutorial. I'll change that right now.
Nice to haves:
-An "Expand All" button for docs when viewing
-Ability to choose a destination folder for your uploaded doc (or at least a "coming soon" and a note about dragging)
-Expose the activity somehow (RSS feed?)
-Task editing is crammed on the side, needs to breathe
-Task details should be textarea, not a single line, and perhaps support markdown or html
-Calendar needs iCal support
-Tasks need grouping / color / tagging / organizing
At some point in the future, I'd like to go to my preferences, and turn off the tutorial.
Edit: fixed formatting of wishlist.
I like that you don't try to cover too much ground with the tutorial. There are definitely some things I'll get to discover later.
The visual look of the bubbles on the comments do appear near-pixel perfect. For this kind of application, performance is absolutely critical (it's arguably the application I would use more than anything else, including my email inbox, so any delay is incredibly frustrating because it bottlenecks my whole day), so I would caution you to make sure that the tutorial looks incredibly fast. I think you've done a good job with that so far.
The tasks feature does need a little bit of work, but it does look slick. I would need the ability to tag items. In fact, I'd suggest you just look in here: http://help.teambox.com/forums/86927-ideas-and-suggestions (their users have already done all of the voting work for you) for a list of task features people want.
Last comment before I stop: it's unpleasant to browse around and find that you're planning to charge me $99 in 16 days for my business account. Got to tell me earlier that it costs money.
1) If you guys allow signup / login with google why isn't there a sigin with google button right on the homepage /signup section? would have prefered that to entering my username and password and most people have a google account anyway.
2) There needs to be a way to exit tutorial mode, maybe it's there already but if it is, it's not obvious enough.
Otherwise I'm loving the design and ease of use.
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I like the single page intro, but feel it could contain a little more information on the feature set. I agree with blakeperdue that a screenshot would help as well. The signup process is super simple, which is a big plus and makes it trivial to get started / explore the product.
The guided start process is very helpful. Did you use any tool for this?
You could allow adding (new) people at task level with just email id. This will make it easier for user adoption.
I see what you're doing there... =)