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Hi. Good to see the workflow editor being improved. There are still some basic issues though. You will need to consult a UX designer moving forward with the workflow editor design. For starters:
- Action texts are way to cramped now.
- Action icons way too small. You need to be able to identify the action when squinting your eyes not being able to read the text. Also make icon outline white or black.
- Arrow and “add new action” in-between actions are not the same icon theme.
- Click are on close icon in search field too small. Very difficult to press / hit.
- Scroll to trigger not resetting when clicking the X mark in search field.
- Some trigger icons not centered properly. Will recommend using Ionic icons throughout the entire editor. Looks like the old font awesome. Which is not very elegant.
- Everything is now called “flows”. Don’t add “flow”. Its completely unnecessary text.
- Pressing “new” workflow, does not focus on the search input. Bug here. Fix it.
- Clicking away from a brand new workflow with no changes made to it, should auto delete it again. No need for additional garbage left there.
- Redundant text when no workflow selected. Remove the first line. The second line is enough.
- Can’t deselect workflow action.
- Colors in context menu does not match icon colors
Also, they are butt ugly. Use a proper tool for selecting modern colors. eg. https://colorhunt.co/ (nb. a UI professional need to do this, not an engineer. They they think blue is #0000ff and just cant feel the difference between any of the 10.000 other shades of blue - Sorry guys). Also the colored dots in the context menu needs to be 2x+ bigger.
Features:
A. Overall overview of all workflows. Once again, instead of one overview, we now have two… complicating things. We could use an extended view or for them to be merged into a board of sorts. Like www.make.com but with all workflows on 1 board.
B: Sort workflows by TRIGGER TYPE. This would improve the general overview of the workflows and make finding eg. errors, condition, element clicked triggers much easier.
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This is fascinating!
Could it be that, even when man (or whoever) invented the wheel, people complained so much? I think…
Haha I know, brutal post above. “Really need to get a ux designer”
Whoever is the current if designer, keep at it, I started as not a fan but with compact mode, icons, colours and your constant iterating + listening to feedback I think your doing a great job. I love the new editor now and if you keep doing what your doing I’m sure I’ll love it more.
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This, the latest update was a universal step in the right direction. Try things out, see how people feel. Just don’t force everyone onto it too early before it’s ready!
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In this case, though, we’re moving from a round wheel to a square one and being told it’s better because the paint is pretty. There’s cause for complaint because the tool sucks and doesn’t fit its purpose.
It’s in Beta yeah? you can toggle on and off. Is that not letting people try it out?
Hello!
Have you thought about the possibility of allowing you to change the order of fields in the workflow?
We often need to delete and add each field to be filled in one by one to maintain logic in the structure.
What do you think?
Just to mention that on MAC the copy/cut/paste keys are wrong.
It should be command key + X etc but it’s currently assigned to Control key, which is not consistent with Mac.
Thanks for sharing this! I’ve long been frustrated that the command-key shortcuts that appear in the context menu don’t work.
I now see the “Shortcuts list” from the “Help Center” that pops out when you select the header bar’s question mark icon does say “CTRL” for some actions and “CMD” for others.
