Hi Aaron, Thank you, that was exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. It is much appreciated!
> Minor feedback > > 1. Too tall on the iPhone. You have to scroll to get to the lower nav which > is not the norm on the iPhone in my experience. I understand this isn't an > "App" however. Just to check, have you saved the app to you homepage and then opened it from there? When you open the app in Safari the navigation bar at the top of the page takes up some additional space. When you open the app from the 'desktop' you don't get the navigation bar and it fits properly. We're still looking for a way to detect the difference and 'shrink' the app when you are in the browser view while still allowing touch scrolling. > 2. Icons are not great res. They look very blurry on my iPhone 4 and could > probably do with a bit of vert space. Thanks for letting me know. We've been testing on an iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS so the resolution is a lot less. I understand that the 4's resolution is double the 3? > The thing that is immediately clear to me however is non technical: > > 3. Actions section is "coming soon" Yup, we are working on actions as we speak :-) This will sync with your personal action as well as any project related actions. > 4. Timesheets is just a manual entry grid for each day of any given week > > So my major feedback would be: What is the goal of this app? As it stands, > it seems to be a timesheet program for manually entering time that you have > to keep track of yourself anyway, and not in any way linked to a given task > or project. On it's own you can have multiple tasks on any given timesheet, but as you say it is just a grid with hours worked per day of the week per task. If you have an account on Psoda with project tasks allocated to you then those will appear on your timesheet as well (after syncing), allowing you to log time against project tasks. When you sync again the time will be uploaded to the server and update your project tasks with your actuals. > There are quite a number of applications, especially for the > iPhone and Adobe Air that do all of that. But the main reason why people > look for these apps is to save themselves from keeping conscious track of > time over multiple projects whilst working. I.E. A start/pause/stop timer > and project/milstone/task heirachy. We are looking to add in a start/pause/stop option that will automatically time your work on tasks. That is a next step. I know there are many similar apps, but none of them integrate with Psoda :-) > 5. Finally, the one issue I have with Safari based "apps" on the iPhone is > that unless their navigation is very clear, it is too easy to forget the > fact that you are viewing a web page (rather than an app) and hit the > browser back button. Thus leaving the application altogether. An example is > hitting the sync button. Takes you to a login form. First reaction is to hit > the browser back button. Second reaction is to press the login form's cancel > button. "Don't make me think". If you save the app to your homepage and then use it like a normal app then you won't have a browser navigation bar, or a browser back button :-) Do you think it will help if the login form has a back button like the other pages rather than a cancel button? > Looking at this, It is nice use of HTML5, but I don't really see any > functional use or productivity > improvement in it (yet), even if I was using your PM solution in conjunction > with it. Hopefully the productivity improvements will come as we add more functionality like the stopwatch and the action list. The main aim to start with was to provide an app where you can capture your time against ad-hoc or project tasks while offline and then sync back to the server to submit for approval. > Not sure if you were after application specific feedback, technical level > feedback, or both. But there it is. That was great feedback thanks! > Take a look at "Billings" by MarketCircle for some ideas. There is a free > version in iTunes and it is very slick indeed. Time Edition have the basic > model of these things done well too. However I get the feeling > Projects/Milestones/Tasks will need to play with your PM model first and > foremost. I'll have a look at those and see how we can incorporate some of those ideas as well. Thanks, Bruce -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
