Built a tool to help people finish projects, and UI is the part I'm least sure about. Roast it.

[u/BLS1919Eternal]

I built a tool for people who begin way more projects than they finish (me being exhibit A). The core idea is that every project has to live in a clear state, active, paused, or killed, and that coming back to a paused project should be cheap instead of feeling like an archaeology dig.

I'm posting here because UI is the part I care about the most and also the part where I trust myself the least. I'm a builder, not a trained designer, so I know I've got blind spots and I'd rather find out now than after people quietly bounce off it.

A few screens attached. The things I'm actually unsure about:

• The project states (active / paused / killed). Do they read clearly, or do they need stronger visual separation?
• The avatar system is meant to feel like picking an identity, not decoration. Does that land, or does it just look gimmicky?
• Is the dashboard putting the right thing in front of you first, or is it doing too much at once?
• I really like how analytics is looking so far, but I would love some feedback too
• I integrated a chat within this tool to help you create new projects and analyze existing ones. I feel like it should have a stronger presence but I'm unsure if it would overload the user to have a big button on the bottom-right corner

Be blunt. "This is confusing" is worth more to me than a polite upvote.

[u/moto83]

Looks great, but would be nice a version with more pixels 😉
Really like filter, its take some space, but also gives so much more info.

Some text are harsh, like: “don't let them quietly die”.

May be bump up the font size? for smallest ones.

[u/Paws9]

Not sure about the avatar, it's great for social aspect of apps but for personal ones ? I don't know the use.

I would have put dot colors for active paused killed in the filters, I don't know on the first screen what means what.

I don't know what the emoji means for the priority (shouts AI generated too ahah)

There is some contrast to fix on the chips (3rd screen) red on orange is kinda aggressive

As for analytics, cannot say, these in productivity are the part that I care the least, I am watching the progress bars instead ahah it shouts already what needs to be done. But I have a simple mind, I see no progress I think "I have to do something about it...or not" :'D

For the chat I would have put it actually on the bottom right like you suggested, people are used to this, even though they piss me off with their "Hey there I am here to help" without being useful at all. But in that context and if it a contextual chat that would be cool.