Productivity app Trello, a virtual platform on the whiteboard for organizing and managing projects, today announces a major redesign, in addition to new features to help businesses manage third-party integrations. The platform is undergoing a visual overhaul, both to its logo and to the illustrations it uses on its website and applications. It also gets several new ways to customize maps and see your workload outside the column view of the whiteboard.
‘During the pandemic, Trello became the office of many people in a remote first world. The overnight shift to distributed work, coupled with the furious use of digital instruments, has led to an exponential increase in digital artifacts spread across programs, some of which now look like a cemetery of ‘proven’ instruments, ‘Trello explains. co-founder Michael Pryor, who leads the platform at enterprise software giant Atlassian after its 2017 acquisition, in a blog post published Tuesday.
Pryor says Trello has built up more than 50 million users and the company wants to expand the way Trello works with third-party services such as Google Drive, the ticket platform Jira and Slack. ‘Today we unveil the start of a brand new Trello, built specifically to support teams as they usher in a new era of work. These features, along with our plans for the future, give users a central vantage point for viewing, planning and tackling their work. ”
The new cards include both mirror cards and circuit boards, which the company hopes will make it easier to manage other programs and services within Trello. Link cards, for example, can now display previews if they contain a link to a third-party service such as Dropbox, Google Docs and YouTube. With another new card type, mirror cards, you can tie cards together on different boards, so that changes to one are reflected on all the others. Trello says this can help reduce confusion and unnecessary inter-office updates, as more basic information about the status of a project will be available automatically instead of having to be communicated manually.
Trello is also introducing five new board views that deviate from the standard column layout that helped the platform popularize. This includes the look of a team table to transform different Trello boards into something more similar to a spreadsheet; timeline view for organizing a complex project by upcoming deadlines; calendar view to track monthly projects and even simply individual to-do list items; map view for organizing projects that contain information (such as real estate); and dashboard view for visualizing data and other project information in bar, line, and pie charts.
These changes could help keep Trello, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, competitive with alternatives like Asana, as well as the number of smaller project management programs all competing for a coveted place in the ever-growing list of software tools offered by small startups and large corporations. The key to that, says Pryor, is to recognize that Trello may not be the only app that does everything you want, but that it needs to be flexible to get businesses and small teams connected with the tools they need and need. make it all accessible.
” Hey, we’re going to get everyone to use our tool, we’ll be the project management tool to govern everyone. “If you look at how people work, the strategy is a bit pessimistic,” Pryror said. The edge in an interview last week. “There are a lot of different tools that people use to do their job, and it’s not all the same thing for different people.”
The goal of Trello going forward, he added, is to find out “how can we extend the map metaphor to different instruments and give you a perspective on all the work that is happening.” New types of maps and new ways to visualize Trello’s distinctive whiteboard could help expand the metaphors and, according to Pryor, make people more productive in the process.