Product and UX Teams - Please fix the new list view experience

[Metroknow 2]

The update earlier this year (in my case MacOS desktop) included some really terrible UX decisions. The biggest one for me lately is the lack of ability to resize columns in list view. This presents a few huge experience drawbacks that you could pretty easily fix - column resizing is a 1998 UX problem, not 2024.  

- The worst for me is the lack of ability to resize the Title column so that I can read the whole title, compounded by a ridiculously non-dynamic resizing when I close other columns. Right now on average I can read the first 5 or 6 words. I use Evernote clipper for research, so the titles are often much longer. Without being able to resize the column (or it doing that for me when extra space in the view is detected - I'd take that even), I can't skim the list anymore for relevant topics, or I miss them altogether. 

The third line of the example above where it says, "The outdated concept that&#8217..." is what I'm talking about - do you see how that is not useful for quickly assessing relevance, like, at all?

- The automatic super-bloated resizing of columns like "Updated" or "Created". See screenshot above. Who in their right mind needs all of the space in the updated and created columns as shown? Can you not see that being able to make those columns narrower and making the title column wider would be so much better?

- The lack of dynamic resizing when columns are removed:

Do you not see a UX problem here? 

Also notice the gigantic amount of wasted space between lines - I get that some folks want some extra space, but I would like basic controls of "compact" vs "comfortable" or similar depending on what I'm trying to accomplish. Give the user the choice. This is not hard. 

Snippets view is even worse: Now I can see the whole title (Yay!), but I can only see a handful of items at once, and if I turn off things like content view, the wasted space is outrageous. It should simply dynamically resize, or better yet, give me control to basically make the list view that is lacking: 

I'm guessing that somebody rationalized these decisions by saying "well they can just use card or snippets views or hover to see more information". The problem with this is a) the other views still cuts off titles, but less so, and more importantly b) your eyes have to scroll both horizontally and vertically to find pattern matches.

And hover is completely useless for quick work when you are trying to assess a list quickly. Try it. 

While I get that some people may prefer that, others of us find it faster to scroll only vertically through lists, not left to right, one row at a time. This problem is fixed easily with resizable columns in list view. Lists exist for a reason. 

Please fix this.

Lastly, basic, basic UX here: In the Options view that shows "Note List View" and "Note Preview", it is horrible practice to use color alone to indicate whether a feature is enabled. It is not compliant with accessibility standards, and even if you did skate by ignoring customers who need accessibility options, it's terrible practice to not include some visual indicator like a checkmark for people who cannot see the full spectrum of color. This is like UX 101.

What happened? 

If I'm missing something please let me know. Is there a way already to address these in the new UI? If there is, it's not very obvious where I might find those solutions - another UX problem. 

 

[Dave-in-Decatur 3,970]

Welcome to the forums. These are basically user-to-user, so none of the regulars here will have any information on this, nor can we fix it (though we may completely agree with you!). You can address Evernote directly at feedback@evernote.com.

[Metroknow 2]

Thanks @Dave-in-Decatur - I will fwd to the email address as well. My hope is that the Product team will periodically look at the community forums as a customer signal - most product teams do this, but if they're not, it pretty much explains everything. Thanks again for the suggestion - I appreciate it!