by wrftaylor on 5/13/23, 7:35 PM with 1 comments
by wrftaylor on 5/13/23, 7:35 PM
I've spent the last 6 months building a free project manager designed for creatives. The focus is on video feedback and keeping big projects organised (unlike the mess you sometimes get in Figma).
Site: https://opine.cm Interactive demo: https://app.opine.cm/demo Figma plugin: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1194400816695978796 Guide: https://www.opine.cm/guide
I'm a designer and software developer from London, and I built this with a UX and design team based in Ukraine and Belarus.
I started this after I had a really frustrating experience typing out feedback to a branding consultant on a different project. Trying to explain my feedback in words just wasn't working, and the process of doing everything on calls seemed super slow.
Before starting any coding, I did customer interviews with 30 designers and design agency owners to validate the idea. What came back was that slow feedback was a common problem. And hopefully, video feedback would be a good solution.
Obviously, video isn't new. I've been a big user of Loom this year, but the experience of getting a link and either losing it in Slack or Figma comments just didn't really work for me. I wanted something where video feedback automatically attaches to the work in a timeline, along with any new versions of the work. Loom also requires an install and a bit of "habit forming", which can be obstacles to getting clients using it.
The other feedback tool we've used is comments in Figma, but the issue there is that big Figma files get messy. This can be really confusing for feedback providers - it's often not clear which frames need feedback and what's finished work, and so on. So we ended up building a Trello-style Kanban board into Opine, so you can always see which work is in progress or ready to review.
The idea is - keep the creative chaos in Figma, and the organised collaboration in Opine - and use a plugin to sync the two.
So... here it is!
Really keen to hear what you think of the project.
Also happy to talk about what it's like developing a real-time project management SaaS .
And obviously - any feedback is really welcome :)