I understand why they're in the same level vertically. I don't understand why the Main Actions for a story are visually the same as every other less important action.
I also understand that those actions are "tied" together. But honestly, they do almost the opposite thing at most stages of the story. Why isn't the primary "move the story forward" more visually prominent? Why isn't there some kind of color clue to tell the user "Hey, this is what you should click on to progress the story." No, the developers only created 1 button style and they used it for everything. Lazy and bad.
I'm not saying that tool design and "pretty" app style design like you see on Dribbble are the same thing. Certainly a hugely work-focused tool like JIRA is going to not look super nice, thats ok. However, the sheer laziness in UI kills me and it makes the product a lot harder to use than it should be.
"Users have to search around the screen for the correct option"
vs.
"JIRA is made for the type of user who wants to get stuff done"
Doesn't that strike you as a fundamental flaw in the tool? I can be much more productive setting up a Kanban board in Trello because I don't have to expend mental energy figuring out the JIRA interface.
I understand why they're in the same level vertically. I don't understand why the Main Actions for a story are visually the same as every other less important action.
I also understand that those actions are "tied" together. But honestly, they do almost the opposite thing at most stages of the story. Why isn't the primary "move the story forward" more visually prominent? Why isn't there some kind of color clue to tell the user "Hey, this is what you should click on to progress the story." No, the developers only created 1 button style and they used it for everything. Lazy and bad.
I'm not saying that tool design and "pretty" app style design like you see on Dribbble are the same thing. Certainly a hugely work-focused tool like JIRA is going to not look super nice, thats ok. However, the sheer laziness in UI kills me and it makes the product a lot harder to use than it should be.
"Users have to search around the screen for the correct option"
vs.
"JIRA is made for the type of user who wants to get stuff done"
Doesn't that strike you as a fundamental flaw in the tool? I can be much more productive setting up a Kanban board in Trello because I don't have to expend mental energy figuring out the JIRA interface.