More UI advancements: time charts, new message form, new milestone page
Hi there,
In my previous post I talked about some of the improvements that made it into Apollo early last week. There is more! We worked on some elements of the interface based on your feedback. Here we go:
Time charts in time reports
When you see a time report (in the Projects dashboard), you can see what people are working on. When you click on a person's name, you now also see a pie chart that shows you which projects they have been working on.
New message form
We improved the form to create a new message: it's now larger, and has an extra tab to subscribe people, set the milestone and the category it belongs to.
New milestones page
We redesigned the milestones page so that all of the important information is as visible as possible.
There is obviously more to come -- stay tuned!
19 comments so far
Darrin
Tue, 06/14/2011 - 04:28
Great job guys! The UI keeps getting better all the time. Hope to see some of that clean UI transfer over to the email notifications. They look pretty plain
Tony Mobily
Tue, 06/14/2011 - 14:56
Hi,
We might eventually turn them into HTML emails. But... we also are big fans of simplicity, and a text-only email is easy to read on any device...
Merc.
Darrin
Tue, 06/14/2011 - 22:24
I totally agree with simplicity. One thing I do miss that was with basecamp is the very easy to read emails that went out for a project. Here is an example screenshot https://shinybot.box.net/shared/kbd88q3lnsnet9r8psdq
This format really grabs my attention
Tony Mobily
Tue, 06/14/2011 - 23:54
Hi,
We will eventually introduce HTML emails. However, text-only emails do have their advantages: they read well on *any* devices, and are much less likely to be marked as spam by filters...!
Bye!
Merc.
Willard Interactive
Tue, 06/14/2011 - 23:46
Great addition! Can't wait to try the new features out.
Shawn Christenson
Wed, 06/15/2011 - 00:01
As always, the UI gets better and better. And I'm very okay with plain text emails... I just want Reply By Email and direct links to attached files in emails.
Andrea Di Clemente
Wed, 06/15/2011 - 06:11
Thanks Shawn! Reply by email is coming very soon, and direct links to attached files in email will follow!
Thijs Kaspers
Wed, 06/15/2011 - 04:37
Great job, ApolloHQ keeps getting better and better!
Andrea Di Clemente
Wed, 06/15/2011 - 06:09
Thanks Thijs!
Shawn Christenson
Wed, 06/15/2011 - 06:15
Tomorrow is our first 'pay for use' day with Apollo and we've decided to stick with you guys. We like where you're headed, what you have already, and your attitudes and dedication! We can't help but want to support that :)
So here's to many years as your customer ahead.
Andrea Di Clemente
Wed, 06/15/2011 - 06:26
We'll do our best to match and exceed your expectations Shawn.
Thanks for sticking with us!
Alberto Gómez
Thu, 06/16/2011 - 09:05
This is great! Do you have any plans to translate Apollo into other languages (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese...)? That would make our entire decision of CRM/Project management SaaS go away!
Andrea Di Clemente
Thu, 06/16/2011 - 15:53
Hi Alberto,
the internationalization infrastructure work in Apollo is ready. Many users already offered their help to translate Apollo into their native languages, so we've developed a little web application for translators which will hopefully ease the process.
Contact us by email if you'd like to be a translator!
Gemma
Tue, 06/21/2011 - 06:51
Awesome! But isn't it about time you added a favicon? I have Apollo set as a pinned tab in FF and it has no favicon! :p
Tony Mobily
Tue, 06/21/2011 - 07:22
Hi Gemma,
We do have a favicon! However, a bug in Firefox prevents it from displaying it... we are waiting for them to fix it!
Merc.
Gemma
Tue, 06/21/2011 - 07:47
Ah I see. :-) Okay!
StockPodium
Tue, 07/05/2011 - 02:12
Can you pls fix the scroll on iPad, I love the tool but I really need to be able to use it on iPad. All but scrolling is working just fine.
Tony Mobily
Tue, 07/05/2011 - 02:13
Hi,
The answer is simple: two finger scrolling! :D
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=916041
Merc.
StockPodium
Tue, 07/05/2011 - 02:21
hah, thanks! You have to post about that, I know some other people that have not figure it out as well ;-)