Via the user community and a workshop which was held last week in our office in Hamburg we gathered some feedback regarding the launchpad. We would like to use the user community to document the feedback, open a discussion and keep you up to speed about the current status of the development.

Basically the launchpad has some good qualities: Customers like being able to administrate it and set global company bookmarks as well as having personal bookmarks, all of it independent from using a browser.

It also has some flaws - most of them having to do with a lack of good user experience and user interface:
- titles are cropped, the space is not used effectively, images take up to much space
- the current launchpad does not work well with large quantities of bookmarks: scrolling is slow, labels and icons are too codensed
- editing of bookmarks is tiring: the option is hard to find and having to change links can be tedious and has to be done manually without a search function. A bookmark that is assigned to multiple categories has to edited multiple times
- Some options (like editing) are very hard to find
- The launchpad is quite hidden which is the reason for many users not to use it

So, we gathered some ideas how to change that:
- Review the user interface and design in general
- Make the use of the launchpad easier (especially with many bookmarks): improve use and display of categories, add search and filters
- Make the launchpad easier to administrate (e.g. the edit button is way to difficiult to find, provide options to copy and move bookmarks)
- Add new ways to sort bookmarks for your need, make it possbile to create your own categories
- Create easier and more personal sorting options, allowing users to tailor the links to their needs
- Direct bookmarking when seeing an element in COYO, e.g. by having a bookmark icon on elements
- Integration with O365 apps

Let us know what you think about this proposal and we'll keep you updated about the progress.

In our user base, we have many freelancers etc. that are not on the platform all day long.
Currently, the notifications are too generic to help them decide whether they've missed something relevant.
Instead of

"Hey Susanne Bartel,

There is 1 update you have not seen, yet. You have:

1 new private message"

etc. it would be great to see at least a few more details like:
1 new WIKI page "namexyz" in space ABC from....

You could also show new timeline entries, at least the first few rows. Should be pretty straightforward to develop, right?

Let me know if you have questions re. this request.

It would be great if you could improve the following thhings asap:

1. In the blog overview and in the timeline:

display a larger image that has the widthe of almost the whole time timeline and put the headline and a short description beneath the image (for example liek on facebook.) Looks way better.

2. During the process of creating a blogpost:

How it is: When I choose a teaser image that already exists, I do not have the possibility to crop it. That means that the teaser image may also be in landscape or upright format, even if the standard is square. So it seems that Coyo saves the edited image.

How it should be: Whenever I choose an existing image or when I uplaod a new image, I always need to crop it. That means that Coyo needs to save the source image that is just cropped for different usages.

3. I would like to have the possibility (optional), that the teaser image is automatically shown on the top of the Rich Text Editor / text of the blogpost in full width. That would avoid to implement the image again.