Hi Doist, I am Zlatan.
Since my experience and portfolio happens to be mostly on location intelligence rather than B2C product like Todoist—and those involving mobile interfaces—I decided to conduct a very quick audit and offer suggestions on a small UX issue I have with Todoist*. Just to add a little more depth to my portfolio.
*I have couple of more, but I'll save those for another time.
It's about navigating between tasks and subtasks, specifically on iOS. I will look into the Mac/Web app as well. So, the UX issue is that when I go one or two steps into subtasks and then want to go back to the parent task, even though it's under one button and theoretically should work fine, I encounter a moment of hesitation every time.
I wanted to address this quickly, I met with a friend today who happens to be a Todoist user, and also showed it to my wife as she uses Todoist occasionally, so I got their feedback on this. However, I am focusing on my own experience, imagining I work for you guys and approaching this like a good old EYODF practitioner :). Let's go through that flow.
My friend said he does not create a lot of subtasks, he's using the web interface and rarely finds this to be an issue. But he does not have a phone at all. He's weird. Anyway, I figured that I do not have that problem on the Mac app at all as well.
Let's look into that…
So, in essence, for the main issue I have with iOS version, I wouldn’t propose anything radically new—just adapt the patterns I find effective from the macOS/Web application to iOS. Here’s what I’m thinking…
This was a half-day task yesterday, to go through this and think about it. Just to explore, but after this, I would love to discuss it with one of Todoist's designers or engineers because it may easily be that I am missing something. It's likely that you explored this solution as well.
But after this, I’d happily prototype the solution, test it with 5–6 users who aren’t my wife or friend :), and see how it performs compared to the current version. I might just do that anyway.
Thank you for your time.
To wrap things up, here’s a love letter
—honest, truly. :)
I fell in love with Todoist somewhere around 2013, if not earlier; it still had the old "TD" logo and an old minimalistic interface. I fell in love with that simplicity. Then, I fell in love again with the first Material design version of Todoist, and again when I switched to iPhone... and so on :) I've sent a lot of feedback over the years.
Also, I have been following Amir's work and activity on social media for more than a decade, and feel so in tune with Doist's values and overall approach to work and life.