After playing a bit with Asana today, I decided to try out the iPhone application as well. While it's nice overall, there are a couple of points that I thought would deserve to be improved. General impressionAt 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 remarksI 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:
ConclusionIt 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.
Important note: I like the app very much, which is why I went into the business of being nitty-picky to begin with. Given the care given to the UX of the web app, I was actually surprised to find these (admittedly small) issues in the iPhone app.