Trello dreams coming true today… more label colors available!

[Ami Fazchas]

@Liam "the Trello team is committed to delivering a product that meets your needs. That is why come to work every day - to build a product that people love to use."

You had one. You fixed what wasn't broken. 

"Our decision in this instance has less to do with engineering capability though and more to do with our overall design direction and prioritization. That said, we continue to make solid progress towards a solution that we hope will improve the usability of labels while maintaining the accessibility and modernization goals that we have for Trello."

What I'm hearing here is that you have a development plan that doesn't take into account actual user input and has no plan to. You have an amazing product and you've gotten so caught up in chasing evolution that you've cut off your nose to spite your face.

Still awaiting a rollback.

[Tajana Tusek]

The colours are too pale, so you can't really distinguish them at first glance, which was a significant part of the planning system it took me a while to develop in Trello. So, I'm really upset about this and wondering if I can still keep using Trello.

I don't see why new colours just couldn't have been added to the old ones, so everyone can choose what they prefer.

[zshirley]

@Tajana Tusek yeah, then they could have said 40 colors instead of 30.

[Denise Kefe]

I'm sorry.  I do not like the new faded labels.  They are hard to see and not as noticeable as a defined factor for color coding items.

[vinc]

It's been 3 months already, came back to the thread to see if there's been any improved plans ...

[Donna]

Thanks for the reminder @vinc , seems as though the whole thing has fallen on deaf ears - I have reworked my approach so I am not as reliant on these labels anymore as hopelessly too washed out to gain a good trench of productivity from them...

[Harjit Samra]

Welcome to 2023 and the same old crappy colors that the Trello team have forced on us

[Philipp Ritz]

@Brittany Joiner When?

[Tushar Bhargava]

Is the Trello team planning to make any changes to the labels based on the feedback they gathered from the in-app survey (or publicly share the results from the survey)? Working with the new faded labels continues to be incredibly frustrating.

[Tushar Bhargava]

I was excited to see some changes to the Trello labels being A/B tested this past week!

The new variation of labels on my personal Trello account had the dot removed and the label background colors subtly changed.

Unfortunately, the label background color and label font color still remained faded and not at all visually helpful, but it's promising that the Trello team is testing out some changes to the labels. Hopefully, the old-style of labels with bright label background colors and visible label font colors make a return.

[W Bruce Cameron]

I have poor color vision and cannot tell the difference between these colors at all.  The old, primary colors were great.  These are absolutely terrible.

[Samuel Chilcott]

THANK YOU 

To the Trello team who made the last option have BRIGHT WHITE TEXT on a bold background!

Although the colours are not what they used to be, this is MUCH BETTER.

All the best!

[Philipp Ritz]

I still do not see any real improvement. Bold colors are still missing. 

[Josh Leard]

Having the above colors would be great, like everyone else I really do not like the pastel look trello made. I would also like to see the option to change the cover colors. I use them just as much as the labels and the cover colors do not stand out like they used to. It makes it hard for me to look at it and know what kind of job I marked it as. Please give us the old colors back or more options. 

[DesignThinking]

Trello just gets worse and worse each time Atlassian's coders are allowed to tinker with it. A great product being steadily eroded by incompetent, tech-centred thinking that demonstrates zero understanding of the user experience and zero human-centred design competence.

Please stop messing with stuff that is not broken simply to avoid addressing the real problems (like the still-missing card mirroring capability, as one glaring example). Atlassian seems now more focussed on entertaining their Trello coders than designing a truly great solution. The fact that such a massive modification like changing all the labels (a major user interface component) can be allowed to happen without any meaningful user research... It's a case study in poor management and lack of product leadership.

What a tragic mess Trello has become.

[Brittany Joiner]

@DesignThinking thought i had stopped watching this post, but turns out i hadn't! Thanks for the reminder, fixing now 👋