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Jun 1, 2020

Good Already, Lots of Potential :-)

I've practiced a lot of Design Thinking, both from the participation side and the teaching side. Ideaonote is a good fit for that. It's also a terrific fit for sprint retrospectives.

I like the UI a lot. It's pretty configurable, so you can do a good job of making it fit your brand. You can define all your colors, select border line weights, and even select border-radius. For me, the inclusion of Adobe Fonts would really round out the experience. I'll submit a feature request for that.

Adding ideas is easy. The ability to vote on them is awesome, another reason Ideanote makes for a great Sprint retro tool. I'm looking forward to future integrations. I'd love to get Jira and Ora. The ability to add an Ideanote idea to the backlog and link status values would be awesome. That'd save teams from copying Ideanote ideas into the tool they use to do their work.

As for Design Thinking, there's one little thing that I REALLY LIKE A LOT. When a guest or ream member clicks on an idea, they see, "How might this idea be improved?" That does two very important things:
1. When a user selects an idea because they want to see if it's the same one they're thinking of, this prompts the user to expand upon the existing idea, rather than create a new one. That's a bid detail if you're collecting lots of ideas.
2. "How might this idea be improved?" shifts the context from a contradiction (instead-of) to a growth mindset. It prompts the user to expand on what's already there; to make it better. You get more structure around ideas, and it happens without some people making others feel bad about themselves.

Ideanote is great for capturing customer feedback. People can have at it without hitting your dev tool directly. I haven't received a lot of ideas yet, but I have set up a mission and created ideas. Ideanote is pretty easy to use.

Right now, in addition to Adobe font support, even before integrations, my big want is to hide missions from public view. When I share a link to one missions, I don't want the people receiving that link to see other missions. This isn't a knock on Ideanote. The app is new. It's more than a great MVP. Feature development takes time. I'm prepared to wait.

Good stuff.

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