Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Project management tools
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with Project management tools, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 8 complaints
- Items at the same priority level are indistinguishable, so choosing what to work on takes thought2025-10-15
- UX doesn't fit certain roles or people, and tools get annoying over time2024-05-22
- Communicating inside project management tools is always terrible and hard to do2024-01-26
- Custom markup or WYSIWYG editors make formatting text and copy-pasting hard2022-11-13
- Simpler interfaces hide features, so the user must search Google to find how to do new things2020-08-02
- Hard to find where colleagues put information; tools are clunky and sluggish2020-05-16
- Hard to keep the big picture while drilling into details2019-12-30
- Laggy UI from some web app tabs, and user must hunt for the culprit2019-02-24