Teamwork Project Manager

One of our main goals here is that TeamworkPM is easy to use hence our tagline, “Project Management made easy”. One problem with this goal is that as we keep adding features we keep adding slightly more complexity to the system with each new feature. The feature needs to be put somewhere in the Ui!

For existing uses this is not too much of an issue as they have be using TWPM as it has been growing so one extra feature here and there does not really bother them. 

When new users first load up TWPM they can be slightly overwhelmed. Every day we receive emails asking for new features and we also receive feedback saying that new users found the software too confusing or complex, it’s a bit of a double edged sword...

For the last few weeks we have been working hard to simplify the design and UI by moving some features, re-arranging tabs, and working on the overall look and feel of TeamworkPM’s design elements such as fonts and menus throughout the whole application.

The first step which has lead to this was the release of the “New Task layout” Peter AKA “Topper” came up with a more structured and cleaner look for adding tasks to projects.

in the old Ui, users were often missing the “add a description” section and  we didn’t have any room to add in Task Priority without the form growing in size. We also felt it was just a bit all over the place and didn’t really have any flow when adding tasks in.



The new look is step based so it keeps some of the extra features out of the way unless you require them.

The first tab is the most important, and it may well be the only tab you need for assigning most of your tasks. it’s the "who, what, when and notify" part of a task. 

if you need to add more information, such as a description, you can click the next tab to add this in.

The next tab is the task Privacy.  This enables you to make a task viewable only for your companies eyes and not for 3rd party people who are working with you on a project.

Adding a task now has all the optional extras displayed on separate tabs so as to keep the process simple and hopefully more straight forward for most users.

The new task option we have added in is Priority on tasks. This new feature enables you to set a task as either high, medium or low priority. Selecting this will show a small icon appear at the end of a task so at a quick glance a user can see what is the most important tasks within a task list to get completed.  

The image below is a chart of how each of the Priority level icons look like.

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