The philosophy of product design behind the simplification, transparency and openness of--teamcola

Behind each product, it represents a kind of value and aesthetic, Teamcola is no exception. If you ask what Teamcola represents, we think it represents streamlining, transparency and openness; if you ask what Teamcola can bring, we think it can bring self-discipline, efficiency and trust.

To get through this blog, talk about how we can express our understanding and understanding of the world by designing small team hour records and statistical software--teamcola, and how it will affect and change the world in turn-even a small part of your team.

1, less is more--teamcola of the streamlining

"Less is much more/less"--this sentence from the mouth of the architect Sch Fan De is full of logic contradictions and Zen wisdom, and we have two understandings:

The first is that, in most cases, a good dagger is better than a Swiss army knife with more than 10 fancy features. Teamcola only solves a problem by letting you understand the content and efficiency of your team members ' daily work, and the only thing you really need to do on this software is to keep a record of what you're doing in your calendar every day.

The only thing you need to do in Teamcola is to simply record your daily work

The second understanding is that things in this world are related to each other, when you really do a good job, there are a lot of things you don't need to do, or the associated problems can be solved. Teamcola does solve only one problem that records a work log, but eventually you'll find that it's not just a chronological to your team.

fill out a weekday such a simple move, like a stone to the team calm lake and thus stir up waves

You see, Teamcola is like an amplifier, and although you only do a "log on" such a move, but the entire team's personal time management, project management, human resources scheduling and corporate culture will be activated.

Whether from visual UI or functional design, Teamcola is an active embrace of minimalist products, avenue to Jane, you really have to do more than you think you need to do a lot less.

2, believe what you see--teamcola transparent

For an excellent team, external to have the fighting force, internal cohesion, so everyone should be strong enough and minimize internal friction, to do the latter, mutual trust is more important than anything. What is the basis of trust? We think it's transparent. Why is the recent Red Cross sternly's statement no one believes? Because their financial data is simply a black hole, unable to openly and without surveillance.

We tend to think that under a good game rule, there can be no full-time managers, because each of us can become our own managers, for a person who has the ability of observation and introspection, the need is actually affected rather than managed.

We form a time section through a page called Team log. See what your team members are doing on the same day, and you'll find that some people are working on specific projects, others are doing research, and others are running sales (well, some lazy guys who don't fill out a work record, You may have to push them to make it up, and it's very effective at forming a holistic view--no matter where your team's people are, this page makes the whole team's work transparent to you.

with Teamcola, the whole team will be more transparent in their work

If you switch to the "Member" page, when you find that your partner spends nearly 9 hours per month on the job and most of it works effectively, and you're on average 5 hours, and most of the work doesn't fit into the company's specific project, you can only classify it as "other" and you feel stressed-- This data is transparent to everyone within the team, you see or do not see, the workload is there, not much-because it is all your own fill.

team members ' workload and overtime (those over 8 hours of blue pillars) at a glance

See here someone may ask, if fill in the log when someone does not truthfully fill out? First of all, we do not intend to and do not think that the software level can eliminate the problem of counterfeiting, but if the real people fake the problem is very easy to expose. First, in a team, everyone is a collaborative relationship, recorded logs can be mutually referenced and supporting. For example, this morning A and B have a meeting, a a whole day of work to fill in the meetings, and the same thing B only recorded in the morning, then the problem is very easy to expose, and a such a record when the mind will have concerns. Second, even if there is no cross-reference and corroboration relationship, if a person is always spending a lot of time on a project, but cannot elaborate more details or ineffective, then you can consider talking to him about the way of working Teamcola's statistical analysis report it's easy to know which guys are the ones who need to be cared for and rewarded, and which ones need a little bit of soy sauce.

from this statistical analysis, this is known as the "ancient spirit" of the students work very hard, and the content of the work is very focused

compared to this "old demon" in the past three months, the child's shoes not only work leisurely and there are a large number of not belong to any project "other" (gray), it is time to criticize the old soy sauce "King"!

The point is that Teamcola's design is based on everyone's good faith as the basic premise, we have no intention to develop a bucket of the system, also do not want it to become a record hours of cold punching machine. In fact, it is more like a calm and objective analyst who can present problems found in logic and common sense in a more overt way.

3, born and interconnected--teamcola open

Teamcola is an online software that now launches a web version and has made a mobile version of a smartphone browser that will further optimize and launch clients for mobile terminals, and we hope it will eventually meet anytime, anywhere, with easy access to any device--simply put, It is a software for the Internet, whether it is the traditional internet, or mobile Internet, will be able to see its beautiful shadow, well, as Evernote or Dropbox do.

the effect of accessing teamcola.com via iphone

Teamcola on the work log in addition to their own online access, you can also choose to mail subscriptions to let the server automatically push. For people and projects, Teamcola offers email subscriptions, and at 9 a day in the morning, the team will send you your subscribed personal or project yesterday's work log to your mailbox.

By clicking this button, your email will receive a daily summary of the work log from the project

a project hour statistics and content mail received from Teamcola in Gmail

If you want to keep an offline copy for your own review, you can also use Icanlendar to sync messages from Teamcola to Google Calendar, Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Sundbird.

You can use the mainstream calendar software to subscribe to the Teamcola from the log

with Apple's ical subscribe to the "Old demon" children's shoes work log to see the effect

4, the virtuous circle--teamcola the feedback

Machel Mcluhan once said, "We build tools, and tools will shape us in turn." /we shape our tools and afterwards we tools shape us. "The process of using Teamcola is also a process of team advancement.

First, Teamcola's streamlined design makes your job more efficient because you no longer need to wrestle with a complex OA system. A little time every day to record their own work is a kind of inspection, many times when I fill in the diary even I am feeling, originally I have such a large amount of time in a day without any worth of records of work and no output! The process of logging every day in Teamcola makes you more aware of how you can use time effectively.

Second, the Teamcola transparent mechanism also passively can make people become more self-discipline, because if someone work is always a state of soy sauce, the team log will be very easy to see, this is a hard work of other individuals is a harm to the parties themselves is a silent spur. Transparency gives the team the greatest benefit, in fact, is trust. Being able to see all the members of a team working hard for a goal (from work time to work content) is happy, in addition to emotional stimulation, and more understanding of other people's work-knowing someone else's work for a small team is very helpful in keeping the team direction and understanding the team's mission.

Finally, the Teamcola open Interconnect interface makes it easier for you to control your own and your team's situation, both online and offline, and in harmony with existing mainstream tools.

Streamlined, transparent, and open Teamcola brings you a disciplined, efficient and trusting team

is because the Teamcola is designed to be streamlined, transparent and open to the bloodstream, so it will also bring this trait to the team that uses it, making your team members more disciplined, efficient and trusting.

Finally, welcome to the best small team hour recording and analysis software--teamcola, we will continue to think and improve, and all this depends on your feedback, have any ideas or suggestions, welcome to write to our sister.

Source: http://blog.mycolorway.com/2011/07/07/design-philosophies-of-teamcola/