Guillaume Lerouge's blog

Microsoft really did spend a lot of time thinking Windows 8 through. They made some pretty bold bets. This article is well worth a read to get a sense of where they think the future of computing (especially PC computing) is going.

Whether it works in its Windows 8 embodiment or not, the idea of one-PC-device-to-rule-them-all has a strongly seductive sense to it. I hope their hardware partners will live up to the hype Microsoft is generating!

Creating the Windows 8 User Experience:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/18/creating-the-windows-8-user-experience.aspx

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General impression

At first, I was a bit disoriented using the application. It does not follow the standard interface guidelines of other iPhone apps, which can be both a good and a bad thing. 

Asana's app home screen:

For instance, there is no "back" button at the top left when looking at a task list or at a single task. Of course, it's quite easy to go back to those pages by tapping on the left of the screen, but this leads to the second remark: the current interface wastes a bit of space of an already small screen estate.

The task list does not use the full available screen real estate:

An iPhone screen only offers so much space to display information, and the app insists on not using the full available height and width to display the information on the page at hand. As a result, it can be tough to make out the name of a task from the task list screen.

Screen-by-screen remarks

I noted a couple additional things while trying out the app.

The tag list doesn't display how many tags are associated to each tag...

Leading the user to tap to see an empty tag page:

Task pages feature a "More" button...

That only gives access to one additional "Delete Task" button:

Conclusion

It feels like the current version of Asana's iPhone application is a first try at building something cool, and, as such, it's still a bit rough around the edges.