Question About Kanban Boards

Posted by Andy Brice
Dec 30, 2018 at 04:32 PM

@Jan S. wrote:
>I have a honest and serious (but critical) question about HyperPlan: Why
>is it so ugly? This seems to be a major difference to other
>todo/planning tools—especially those that are popular on OS X. It
>looks like the calculator program I had to write in Visual Basic 5 in
>high school. You are clearly capable of doing the back-end work—most
>recently implementing graph data structures and algorithms for card
>relationships. But I think the front-end is really lagging behind.

I’m a programmer, not an artist, and so far I have been concentrating on the functionality and usability. I realize there is room for improvement on the aesthetics and I might get someone more artistic involved for v3.

Also it is highly configurable. So you are free to choose ugly fonts and colors, if you want to.

Beauty is, of course, subjective. What is it you particularly find ugly? Can you be more specific? Are there any competitors you think are particularly attractive?

> Maybe
>just switching the GUI framework (preferably native widgets) would help
>a lot? I’m sorry to say it but Hyper Plan looks like enterprise
>software. Some people might disagree and say it’s all about function.
>But then we would all be using lisp-machines…

I do pay a certain price for writing it in a cross-platform framework (Qt) but I consider that worth paying to be able to deploy on Windows and Mac.

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Andy Brice
http://www.hyperplan.com