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Lower the bar for incorporating wishes

NateLumen
Expert

There are almost 1000 wishes in this forum. Many of them would be obvious improvements - making the software more functional, intuitive, integrated, and dynamic.

 

Instead of waiting for TWO HUNDRED people to express dissatisfaction on this forum, how about somebody from Graphisoft regularly reviews the wishes for what are almost objectively good ideas and works to get them on the roadmap and into the software?

 

I've been on this Wishlist since it was created and there's a lot of gold in here. I don't know that we deserve compensation for these wishes as another user has suggested, but I would like all of the good ideas we are putting forth to actually help improve the software.  I know wishes are moving to "Under Consideration" with 20, 30, 40 upvotes. I'm just saying can we restructure this a little?

 

The community provides good ideas -> Graphisoft reviews *ALL* of them -> The good ones get incorporated, *especially* the ones with many upvotes.

 

Would anyone else like to see more than a handful of these ideas get into the software?

 

EDIT: (moving this from a comment into the post)

 

I think part of what is happening is that the Wishlist forum is fielding both Wishes with a capital W ("wouldn't it be cool if Archicad could ___"), and User Experience feedback ("this tool isn't working as expected", "there are inconsistencies in your interface", "I'm not able to ___ when this happens, but it works everywhere else", "in your latest update, you lost this feature").

 

There is so much UX feedback - we have essentially become a global UX team, which on the one hand is great - we use the product day in and day out and can easily notice when the experience isn't meeting par. The key is that Graphisoft needs to sort out which "wishes" are aspirational and which are essential. As a daily U, this would greatly improve my X.

 

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2D
Advocate

Was just discussing this issue this morning in my office. Totally agree with your points. If Graphisoft wants its users to actually make an impact they should rethink the process. Otherwise it just feels like whispering into a void.

 

Feels like too much time is spent playing catch-up with the competition, and not nearly enough on just making things work the way they should.

SimSmi1
Booster

Graphisoft has a better reputation than Autodesk for continuous improvement of their product, and its one of the reasons I no longer use Revit. However the last release with AI assistant doesn't seem to be focussed on actual wishes from the community. I endorse this wish!

Space_Agency
Enthusiast

Completely agree with this post. If we took even a quarter of the wishes that addressed basic functionality issues in Archicad, the software would be vastly improved.  Instead of the catch-up to competition approach which has the fallout of degrading the software, Graphisoft could actually serve their user-base and allow the user experience to be awesome instead of packed with frustration. Looking at where the AI space is headed, I can only imagine the situation where we will have to try to explain workarounds in the software to an AI interface, which I'm sure will be a flawless process 🙄. I could be pleasantly surprised by how well it works, but I'm not holding my breath on that. 

 

NateLumen
Expert

Maybe somebody at @GRAPHISOFT can weigh in on when issues we find should be submitted via the Wishlist and when they should be submitted as a Request including which is more likely to produce a change in the software?

 

I've seen minor inconsistencies reported elsewhere on the forum get addressed by Graphisoft and submitted as a request same day and I'm wondering if that is a more effective method.

2D
Advocate

Btw. i would also like to point out that there are language based wishlists... which just makes things even more "interesting"

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https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Wunschliste/idb-p/wishlist-de

 

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