Our best ideas come from users
I was reminded today that our best ideas come from users.
A new subscriber sent in a list of suggested enhancements mostly relating to the Planner view in the Tasks module. The suggestions would have a wide appeal and would definitely make scheduling tasks much easier. We’ve added them to the wish list that we keep for user requests.
The way we work is to actively encourage users to suggest improvements to MyOffice. We add all the requests into a wishlist and if several users ask for the same enhancement it carries more weight when we sit down to work out what we’re going to develop next. Sometimes we can’t accomodate requests for quite a while …. possibly until we next release a compulsory version. At other times we’re able to make a quick non compulsory release and make some users very happy!
Generally speaking we look for ideas that will be easy to understand. We know that if a feature isn’t immediately intuitive we’ve failed. Complicated features just don’t get past our design committee. We’re also looking for ideas that will appeal to the majority of our users and if we get a really good one we’ve been known to drop everything and implement it as fast as possible.
From a humble beginning as an online shared diary MyOffice has come a long way in 5 years and a lot of it is down to user feedback.
Keep the ideas coming guys!