I’m always analysing task|mate for what could be improved or made simpler. Something that has always been tricky to get right is the navigation through out task|mate. This has mainly been because we currently have a hierarchy of a User, that has many Projects, which has many Tasks and belongs to a Milestone. The user interface has always tried to mirror this relationship, however it’s made the system awkward to navigate and confusing.

So our next step is to simplify the user interface and remove this hierarchy from the users perspective, below you can see the new suggested layout.

You can see that the majority of our current functionality has been moved to the very top bar, the larger menu will now become a project specific menu and the screens accessed from there will be filtered down to whichever project your currently viewing.

The current project screens try to squeeze too much information onto a rather crowded small space. So we’re going to move towards spreading this across multiple screens, and increasing the power and flexibility of each section.

We currently estimate that there is a couple of months work to complete the migration to this new layout. Don’t panic though that doesn’t mean there will be no updates until the work is complete. We don’t plan on having a big bang release, instead we plan to slowly move towards this layout over the next couple releases.

Please let us know what you think of the new layout, we’d love to hear your feedback.