There are thousands of pieces of work on the Basecamp cutting room floor. Here are 37 random ones from October 2011 until now.
Some of these were ideas in progress. Some of them never left the sketch phase. Some were in production for awhile before we decided to change, redesign, remove, or tweak. And others are still there.
Jason Fried wrote this on Feb 22 2012 There are 18 comments.
Rich 22 Feb 12
Fascinating. I can’t wait to find out what was left in.
Rich 22 Feb 12
I forgot to mention that I’m relieved to see an exploration of groups. Here’s hoping that the days of hunting through alphabetical lists of people and checkng individual boxes each and every time I post a message or comment are over. Yay.
jamie 22 Feb 12
“I do want to express myself, okay. And I don’t need 37 pieces of flair to do it.”
Rich 22 Feb 12
@jamie: fantastic. Pieces of flair are round. new avatars are round. Coincidence? I think not.
Cameron 22 Feb 12
The final design is very clean. I would be interested to know who designed most of that.
JF 22 Feb 12
Cameron, all of our designers had a hand in designing the new Basecamp. Different people were involved at different times and on different projects.
Henrik 22 Feb 12
Hi
I’m quite exited to see the new BC. Will their be an iOS app og mobile site?
Henrik
Stephen Jenkins 22 Feb 12
Not to get all buzzwordy, but are there any HTML5 specific features that are being implemented in NEXT ?
JZ 22 Feb 12
@Stephen – they’re definitely not on the cutting room floor ;)
Steven Verbeek 23 Feb 12
Hey Jason,
I did have a question, not so much related to this as to Basecamp (Next) in a whole. I am wondering if..
1. Users (like actual users under my main basecamp account) will be able to use Basecamp Next, or will it be an ENTIRE account switch?
2. Currently a lot of “foreign” time tracking tools use the API , if time tracking is no longer going to be part of it, would those still work?
Aleks Dorohovich 23 Feb 12
How about third-party apps/tools in new Basecamp?
For example, I integrated Beanstalk app with my Basecamp account. Will it work in BSX or you’ll decide drop integration feature with third-party tools?
Ranjan Jha 23 Feb 12
Nice information, creating more attention of mine.
DHH 23 Feb 12
Stephen, we’re using localStorage, pushState, data-attributes, and a bunch of other goodies from HTML5 .
Steven, you can migrate on a per-project basis. But everyone on that project will have to use either Classic or Next. The time tracking integration tools will not work with Next.
Aleks, there’s a new API for Next that 3rd party integrations can choose to add support for in addition to the Classic integration.
Derek 23 Feb 12
Data Attributes has been the most useful HTML5 feature I’ve used to date. Thanks as always for the great posts on here.
dusoft 24 Feb 12
I don’t think using a “wrong way” symbol for “minus” is a good way. Too confusing. Different meanings.
Scott 27 Feb 12
Looking at the Basecamp Next UI Preview (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3111-basecamp-next-ui-preview), I noticed something.
I think the sheet overlay would be much more appealing and striking of the title of the first sheet did not shift, move, or change font when a second sheet is laid over it. It would be closer to the real life analog of placing one page over another if the underlying page did not change.
I understand you want the underlying page to become a link, but wonder if there’s a way to do so without such a visual jump or change to the title.
Steve 27 Feb 12
How much time was wasted by building out some of these failed ideas / UIs? Some seem like they could have ben stopped during the sketch/design process.
JF 28 Feb 12
Steve: No time was wasted. These were steps to get where we are today.
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