It's an exciting prospect. A chance to forget or ignore whatever else is out there and do things our way, zero baggage. It doesn't matter how anyone else does this stuff, let's just think how we'd do it from scratch with nothing to worry about.
That's usually our starting point. But it's not the starting point of many of our users. Their starting point is the scheduling software they already use.
Things that aren't priorities initially, because they're not critical for a functional product. But they're clearly important for a usable one. Maybe things that don't initially feel obvious in a web app, but are the bread and butter of a desktop one.
It's probably a Windows app that they've used for years, maybe decades. They're used to how it works, and no matter how much we try to focus on our approach, there are some things someone coming from that world is definitely going to miss.
Today we shipped multi-select, multi-drag, cut, copy, paste, undo and redo 🎉
I've been using them while testing for a few weeks, and it all becomes second nature rapidly. There's full keyboard shortcut support too.
Once you've got this stuff, it feels like it should've always been there. But that's the fun of product development, trade-offs and time.
You can read more about these new features in @jonathancresswell.co.uk's blog post here:
aiir.com/blog/post/ne...
You can copy an item on one page and then paste it on another. You can make a bunch of changes and then undo them all. You can select ten rows, drag them down the log or hit "del" on your keyboard and they're gone.
Scheduler is free to try for 14 days, then just $60/£40 per station, per month - cancel any time. Bring your existing library.
Watch an extended video tour:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b7G...
Big yet.
We've just shipped a package of new features for @aiir.com Scheduler. I'm really proud of them.
Building a new product means you get to try lots of new things. New ideas, new approaches, new flows, new designs, new names for things, etc.