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One of the less used but nonetheless priceless functions within the Allworkedup system is the export function. This allows you to takeaway a project snapshot at anytime, including all uploaded designs and project files, aswell as comments neatly arranged as a spreadsheet. If you have a face to face meeting with a client where you can’t get online this could be realy useful.
When you click export, all the files and comments are quite simply packaged up into a zip file for you to download. You can do this at any time during the project – which makes project archiving simple and easy. This function allows you to easily export a project, archive it locally and delete the live project on Allworkedup. Remember – you get 14 days to restore deleted projects – so there’s no need to fret.
The reason we built Allworkedup was simple – we were frustrated with the design process, inparticular a couple of elements of it:
When we built the system initially it was hard coded – a page of designs with a simple navigation – but this became hard to manage so we saw the need to have an internal system that worked for us and for our clients. Allworkedup has grown out of our need to provide our clients with a consistent, easy to use interface for leaving feedback, managing design versions and bringing a project together.
There are other systems out there – but in our experience they don’t really achieve the aims of a designer or design agency effectively. We know that Allworkedup works, we have used it in one guise or another for many years and so we decided to release it to the design community at large.
The system is still growing, there are many functions that we want to add to enhance the experience, but we are happy that it will make the day to day life of any designer easier and will give your clients confidence in what they are looking at.
Go ahead and get started with a free account and feel free to leave feedback – we do actually listen!
Naturally, if you subscribe to Allworkedup and you are a design agency with multiple project managers and designers, you’ll want the facility to grant relevant permissions to the relevant users. This post takes you through this process and provides a quick reference point to those who want to set up their account in this way.
Firstly let’s deal with account managers/project managers. The users that need to add projects, manage projects and who will be some of the most active uses on the system. After all – it may turn out that as the subscriber you have little contact with the system if you have a team of project managers and designers working for you. So in the case of account managers and project managers we need to give them the ability to add projects on your account. Here’s how to do it:
Secondly you want to add in your team of creatives so that they can upload and manage their designs on the system.
We thought it might be useful to give you some pointers when starting out with your Allworkedup subscription so we’ve devised a number of blog posts which will be published over a number of weeks to document some of the most important steps in using the system successfully. The first will be entitled ‘Setting up account managers’ and will be published tomorrow.
One of the most frustrating things that came out of the prototype research was not being able to see a design when adding a comment. We’ve overcome this by adding in two types of functionality:
On top of these features we also have some nice additions to the design viewer which allow you to see all the comments relating to that design version.
All in all we believe that the problem has been solved. Of course there will be more to come – adding comments to specific parts of the design is one thing that we will be looking at in earnest.
Although the prototype included a form of archiving it really needed to be looked at. The process now gives the project member the control to, at any point, grab an archive of the project. This includes all designs, project files and the comment feed (as a .csv file). The resultant download is a neatly packed ZIP with simply labeled folders and of course the feed spreadsheet.
The benefits to providing archiving like this are that you can take a record of the project to a face to face meeting where you are unlikely to have internet access or archive a project prior to deletion for your records (if it’s finished). I’m sure there are more uses out there – but these seemed to be the main ones.
Archive away!
The 24 hour start-up project consisted of conceiving, designing, building and promoting a new business in 24 hours! The combined teams from White October, Nonsense and Hutchhouse pulled of a real feat with the launch of DrHue.com just 24 hours after the experiment started. Allworkedup was widely used during the design and management of the process providing a central point for design comment and feedback, as well as a hub for file handovers.
Well done to the 24 hour start-up team (twitter: @24hourstartup) – we’ll be keeping an eye on those bids. You can keep up to date on the 24 hour start-up blog:
24 hour-startup from Dan Goodwin on Vimeo.
