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Basecamp 3 demo12/3/2023 ![]() ![]() This is where it’s painfully important to understand who your typical user is through research and building personas. Unfortunately in this scenario it was actually wrong because the app was trying to be a Basecamp alternative. Having lots of options here would unnecessarily clutter the process. Now this might not necessarily be wrong, the app could be designed to create quick to do lists. As you can see another app hides these functions within the options settings which on my first use went unnoticed and left me wandering how the hell I assign the task to a team member. The flow to completing actions had been carefully thought out. I managed to easily complete these tasks without watching or reading any tutorials. I think they got it perfect with the following list of report templates.Īnother great ux design I encountered while adding a few tasks and scheduling events was that everything felt like it was within easy reach. What I REALLY liked about basecamp was that they created ready-made templates to access what they thought were the most important reports a user would need. ![]() Simple dashboards can probably get away with this but complex systems will usually need some sort of instruction. It goes without saying, don’t just dump a user into a dashboard without any guide or introduction on how to use it. Especially helpful when landing on a dashboard for the first time with many things to click. Clever little animations like this and things such as highlighting and darkening the rest of the screen can really help direct the users attention to where you want it to. Basecamp use simple animations to direct the users attention to the area they want. Once completing the rest of the signup process you get into your own dashboard. This avoids any confusion about what basecamp needs from the user. Question – Explain What The Question Is For – Show An Example of an Answer. To further clarify the information they want from the user basecamp provide a followup description and also some examples. It makes a lot more sense to be asked a question instead of just have a random title placed above a text field. I found it really helpful that they worded the field boxes as questions. Basecamp does everything right with their user onboarding process here. I felt a lot more comfortable creating my own basecamp dashboard now. Once you have played around with the demo dashboards you get a good sense of how things work. What we learnt: Allow the user to learn about your product through different ways. It’s short enough for me to be bothered to watch which was good. To accompany this, basecamp also includes a quick 2 minute video walkthrough. This allows the user to try out all of the functions within the app. ![]() This is actually really handy because it fleshes out the entire app and allows the user to see what the interface looks like at its full capacity so-to-speak. It’s something that I have never encountered before when signing up to an app but its something I really like the idea of.īasecamp allows the user to play with a sample dashboard that is already pre-populated with content. Where things get good is Basecamp’s initial welcome screen. The sign-up process for Basecamp is incredibly straight-forward, I won’t talk about it here as it’s pretty standard. Feature-rich is a great thing but if your UI is poorly designed things will quickly turn ugly for an end-user. Project management apps (or any app for that matter) can sometimes be complicated beasts. Hopefully you’ll discover some tips when designing your next app or interface. There were quite a few nice touches that Basecamp have in their product and in this UX review I’ll be going over some of the things I loved using. This was the first time I was using basecamp and as a long time Asana user I must say, I was really impressed with it. For a client I recently reviewed their project/team management app against basecamp.
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