UI Improvements
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Andy Johnston
Click up has great features. But, it's UI is messy and cluttered. Way too much repetition, and poor text hierarchy. If you feel the same way, please use this feed to add in your own UI critiques and hopefully they will listen, and give us a refresh.
Example 1 - The inbox.
The inbox useful in theory, but I find it unusable in practice. Why are dates written as full strings including the year repeated again and again? I am already informed above these tasks what the month is. I find it pretty easy to guess what the year is, and I certainly don't need told what century we're in, and not again and again for every tasks beginning and end date! I find it extremely hard to get a quick sense of what I am looking at. Even dates written in alphabetic style would be easy. Like 7th Jul - 8th Aug. If the month is written above, does it need to be on the task as well?
Similarly, I have named my lists according to the project title. In this view, it is very hard to see the project title easily. This means I have a long list of tasks but it's hard for me to quickly see which projects they relate to. I rarely add project names to my task titles because this would also be unnecessary duplication.
Please redesign this page so that the principle information is clearly visible and extraneous information and repetition is removed.
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Lynda Kane
The new update is, like many updates, worse than what was there before. why change it if it ain't broke!? the side bar when open is so wide and immovable that it obscures half of our calendar. and why has editing on a comment disappeared? Your designers should also be users then they'd be a lot more helpful
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Anderson
I agree; a lot of space is wasted, and I am not able to hide items I don’t need. I only want to see information relevant to my project.
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Mimi Ayoub
Suggested Fix #1
When adding in a new task can we please have the text look the same (it becomes a very large size and is not consistent with other task text)
Suggested Fix #2
When moving tasks and subtasks around, can you please NOT have the initial task dissappear and lose its place in line - ie having a placeholder while you finally set it down, because it moves while im still working this disrupts my focus and i lose where i was in the list. Then i have to search again one by one on the list to find it then move it again to its right place and that alone is a hassle as it is glitchy and sticky and not smooth to move around.
Suggested Fix #3
Moving tasks and subtasks around to have a clear and defined edge to know where to move it to, it currently is a nonexistent and non-defined edge, so its a guessing game when trying to move the order around. And when i move a task sometimes it dissappears into thin air, then a day or teo later i find it in a waaayyyy off place, or have to refresh to find it.
Suggested Fix #4
Can you please widen the space where the tasks and all the columns are on the page, its a waste of space on the screen honestly. Take advantage of the available real estate.
Suggested Fix #5
Can you please make clicking into a task an optional DOUBLE CLICK!!! because once you mistakenly click on a task you have to click back maybe like 10 times to find your spot again.
Suggested Fix #6
Have a toggle that expands all tasks and subtasks automatically upon opening the page.
Hopefully this gets us some results, the team and I use ClickUp daily for elaborate adn complex cross-collaboration projects. Please support and advise ASAP. Thank you!
Lela Smith
I hate to say it, but my company of less than 50 people has had clickup since 2022 and STILL have not been able to onboard everyone to use it. The #1 reason is the UI is too cluttered and all over the place. We got it for the potential it has to help organize work, but it's only gotten worse over the years. If this doesn't get fixed soon, not sure we'll keep it. I'd love to help with this effort!
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Anderson
Lela Smith Same here.
Artur .T
We need a Minimalist UI, A lot more shortcuts, and allow for multiple tabs & session so that we don't feel like we are using separate apps. We have lost hope about the UI at this point , at least do the last too.
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Sadie Janssens
Overall the design is way too cluttery. The very first thing I noticed is the lack of whitespace and poor text hierarchy which makes just looking at it feel like work.
Secondly, I feel like there are way too many menu options readily available, and not the ones that would make the software convenient to use. I feel like I'm constantly having to search for basic features among other features that I would only need for super specific situations. It would be so much better if the software was way more minimalistic from the start with the option to build out more specialized features, workspaces, and workflows depending on what your team needs. I would love to use clickup because of the features, but I feel like I'm using just as much brain power mentally deciphering what I'm looking at on clickup than if I were to just manually recreate the features in a more simple software, add in the learning curve and it's a no go. I can't imagine trying to teach my team to efficiently use it.
Alex Nascimento
Clean View....
Michael
ClickUp can be pretty intimidating
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for those new to project management platforms (a surprising number of people). It's also really hard for people to grasp the power of "Tasks In Multiple Lists" (which needs better branding like "Task Mirroring" or "Task Aliasing" or something that clicks in people's brains most of whom are stuck in 90s computing paradigms).Cleaning up the UI will make a big difference (which I've used 4.0 and I don't know it's what everyone is hoping), but at the end of the day, an app/platform like ClickUp is just going to have a learning curve.
FWIW the reason I decided to go all-in on ClickUp was because of its ease-of-use to power ratio. I've used a lot of software in my day and ClickUp blows everything else out of the water. Definitely not perfect, but one of the best out there.
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Joanna Sun
As of last week, the latest update made the column labels on kanban boards impossible to read (white on pastel). Please fix.
Mostafa Shabanpour
Please do something to create more space for viewing the tasks, and enable the accordion feature for different sections. For example, this section here, which is hardly used, but takes up a lot of space.
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