{"id":7840,"date":"2013-04-23T10:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2017-12-06T15:39:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T23:39:23","slug":"trello-for-web-design-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/trello-for-web-design-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Trello for Web Design Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re avid fans of Trello<\/a><\/strong> here, so we though it would be fun to share some of our tricks. (Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards.)<\/p>\n

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Many features are better demonstrated in the tour on their website<\/a>, but no doubt we have a good shortlist.<\/p>\n

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  1. The structure of cards within lists within projects is very straightforward<\/li>\n
  2. You can pretty much control the whole thing with just your keyboard<\/li>\n
  3. Realtime updates are visible to anyone viewing a board<\/li>\n
  4. Amazing<\/em> iPhone and iPad apps that support pretty much every feature<\/li>\n
  5. Any card can hold any number of lists, attachments, and even a full discussion<\/li>\n
  6. Cards can be instantly filtered by many criteria<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Because Trello features any number of boards within an organization, we tend to use one for every one<\/strong> of our design projects. We use some for other tasks too, but we’ll focus on how we<\/em> organize building a website for now.
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    \nWe start out with a pretty basic board. We use the columns<\/strong> to represent the 5 typical phases of a project. This is the type of thing we would use, at its simplest. And filling out the columns with cards can go really quickly during a meeting, because every time you hit return in a column, it adds another card and you can keep on writing your thoughts.<\/p>\n

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    For each board, we generally deal with no more than one phase per week, and we represent a task belonging to someone in the near-term with their picture on a card. This means that these cards are “assigned”<\/strong> to them, and what we expect they’ll focus on over the next few days.<\/p>\n

    Look at the 4th column to see an example of how I’ve been assigned to three cards in that phase.<\/p>\n

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    The detail on a card is great, and because they’re using fonts for the icons, it scales as large as you need it. This can be very handy for a display mounted on the wall, for example.<\/p>\n

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    The card’s description accepts Markdown formatting, which I find very handy and simple to use.<\/p>\n

    There are a number of views in Trello that help you get a big picture. The first contains a handy list of all cards assigned to you in every board<\/strong>, sorted roughly by due date. Here is a close-up example.<\/p>\n

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    Another view shows you real-time updates<\/strong> from every board, list, or card you’re subscribed to. A third shows all your projects. And any time a card is mentioned in any of these views, you can click and view it immediately.<\/p>\n

    You can share a link to any card or board with your team, in chat or email, if you need to get more specific. Modern browsers can also be configured to show real-time status updates from the board to your desktop, which is also handy if someone has a question and mentions you in a comment.<\/p>\n

    Chrome plugins are able to extend Trello within the browser, which is how the time tracking service Harvest is able to integrate with Trello<\/a> so you are even able to track time while working on a card, right on the card itself.<\/p>\n

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    It’s all rather slick, and for the most part, absolutely free. If you use Trello for web development projects, I’d love to hear what you do differently.<\/strong> Write @brigleb<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Looking for a tool to help you with tracking projects, we are avid users of Trello for all of our web projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[665],"tags":[52,163],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/q-s\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-22-at-10.25.01-PM.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}