The Trello productivity app, a virtual whiteboard-style platform for organizing and managing projects, is announcing a major redesign today, as well as new features to help companies manage third-party integrations. The platform is undergoing a visual overhaul, both in its logo and in the illustrations it implements on its website and applications. He is also getting several new ways to customize cards and view his workload in addition to the main whiteboard column view.
“During the pandemic, Trello became the new office for many people in a remote world. The overnight shift to distributed work coupled with the frantic adoption of digital tools has led to an exponential increase in digital work artifacts spread across applications, some of which now resemble a graveyard of ‘tested and discarded’ tools, ”he explains. Trello co-founder Michael Pryor, who leads the business software giant Atlassian’s platform after its acquisition in 2017, in a blog published on Tuesday.
Pryor says that Trello has accumulated well over 50 million users and that the company wants to expand the way Trello works with third-party services, such as Google Drive, the Jira and Slack ticket platform. “Today, we are revealing the start of a brand new Trello, built specifically to support teams that usher in a new era of work. These resources, together with our plans for the future, will give users a central point of view to view, plan and carry out their work. ”
The new cards include mirror cards and link cards, which the company hopes will make it easier to manage other applications and services from 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. Another new type of card, mirror cards, will allow you to pair cards on multiple boards, so that changes in one are reflected in all the others. Trello says this should help reduce confusion and unnecessary updates between offices, because more basic information about a project’s status will be available automatically instead of having to be communicated manually.
Trello is also introducing five new frame views that differ from the standard column layout that the platform helped popularize. This includes viewing the team table to transform multiple Trello panels into something more like a spreadsheet for easy viewing; visualization of the timeline to organize a complex project in the next deadlines; calendar view to monitor projects and even individual task list items monthly; map view to organize projects that incorporate information (such as real estate); and panel display for data visualizations and other project information in bar, line and pie charts.
These changes could help Trello, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, to remain competitive on alternatives like Asana, as well as dozens of smaller project management apps, all vying for a coveted place on the growing list. of software tools used by startups and large corporations. The key to this, says Pryor, is to recognize that Trello cannot be the only application that does everything you want, but that it needs to be flexible enough to allow businesses and small teams to connect to the tools they need and have everything accessible.
“‘Hey, let’s just get everyone to use our tool, we’ll be the project management tool to run them all.’ When you look at how people work, this strategy is a little short-sighted ”, said Pryror The Verge in an interview last week. “There are many different tools that people use to do their job and they are not all the same for different people.”
The goal of Trello in the future, he added, is to discover “how we can expand the card metaphor to different tools and give you a perspective on all the work that is going on”. New types of cards and new ways to view Trello’s unique whiteboard can help expand these metaphors and, Pryor hopes, make people more productive in the process.