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Quip 5.0 — Now with project management and a new design
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@denull Totally agree, and it looks like a lot of others do too. The old UI was focused on a clean and clear space for writing; this new one feels focused on buttons and features. I don't think that shift worked well for Evernote, hopefully Quip can avoid that.
@denull They reverted Quip's UI to old one. :) EDIT: Opps. Sorry, it was misinformation. But I hope they do it.
@jringenberg I guess it was expected after Salesforce acquired them. After all they are probably trying to make it Word/Pages user friendly. Such a shame... We've been experimenting with Dropbox Paper and Notion but nothing compares to Quip.
@denull @jringenberg What's the 'shame' part? If you simply are writing -- an essay, for example -- all these new affordances don't inhibit you. It's only if you are trying to create a document that acts as a 'work processing' context--with assignment, due dates, and so on--that these controls show up. And if you are doing 'work processing' and not word processing, you need those capabilities.
@denull @stoweboyd Yup, it's not the features that are the shame, it's the poor visual design that distracts from the writing.
'Now with project management'? Doesn't that require a bit more than just due dates and assignment? For example, where's the list of all tasks assigned to me across all Quip docs?
what about the color palette? These candy colors are annoyingly garish. Can we please get access to the colors, please?
Quip is my go to writing/editing software. I started using it as an alpha product and haven't stopped using it. There is so much which can be done with this product and I continue to use it to collaborate. Lot of great features in the new version. @btaylor congrats and also please build ways to publish directly to WordPress 😄
@om @btaylor I love @Quip too for the process of writing new posts and documents, and it would be nice to have an integration with @WordPress as well
Hunter
I'm excited about the update and the added reminders are a really useful feature.
I still miss the ability to share more rich content in quip like embed videos in document (or just watch video in a chat!). @btaylor do you have any plans on making 1-1 and group chat a more rich experience? It's nice an simple but just things like video and gif would just be so nice if it was displayed.
@galimotion thanks for the hunt/share. Looks like Quip had a great makeover. Looks refreshing. ✌️
Great to see updates on Quip and the reminder feature—YES! But whoever made the new typographic choices and designed those horrible buttons on top needs to revisit their design. The typeface is very heavy and hard to read, it's generally an ugly one, and it has too much attitude for its purpose—text documents. The buttons are constantly in my face and they need to either be compressible, redesign them (kill that horrible boldness all over them) or remove them altogether. Generally happy to see updates and new features and I really hope to see better design choices.
I'm using Quip about 3 years for personal notes. Date notification is a cool feature! Thanks guys that you are doing all this time!
Disclaimer: I don't like to say anything bad about anyone, but:
It's pretty clear that the UI update here is an effort to conform to Salesforce's branding / style guides. This isn't actually an upgrade for Quip (aesthetically / visual design-wise).
However, there are a ton of nice-to-have new features included in this, so congrats on shipping that! Unfortunately, I feel like I've stepped back in time 3 years design-wise.
Dialo