Hi Elena, thank you for your feedback. We're keen to understand which parts are more user friendly in the old view, so we can optimize them with our UX team. 

We've had significant feedback that the vertical workflow view was very cumbersome to use as it displayed less information, not making use of full screen estate of monitors that are more widescreen than vertical, which resulted in lack of clarity and endless scrolling.

Additionally, we have plans to evolve the product in the future including more functionality in this view, and the vertical layout would not allow us to easily extend the functionality of this view in the future. So it is also a move to set us up towards future capabilities.

As to why we don't maintain both: It essentially boils down to doubling the development. Every time we would add functionality or make changes, we would have to do it twice for something that solves the same use case. As such, we decided to retire it, after an adjustment period, so that we can rather use our development capacity to work on further improving the product further in other areas.

I know this is a big change to a main screen that we have been used to now for a few years, all I would ask is give it a chance and get familiar with it, and hopefully over time you will grow to appreciate it 

Luis Lopes said:

As such, we decided to retire it, after an adjustment period,

Thanks, Luis,
When did that adjustment period start - and when do you envisage it to end?
To us, this came as a surprise...

As you know, we haven't been using this for years because we only moved to Team a few months ago. Having just about mastered the shift from GroupShare to Team, we now need to familiarise ourselves with a new UI again. While trying to get our business done, of course.

Best regards,
Ralf

Hi Ralf,

this was released last Monday. The announcement for Team was only posted yesterday unfortunately, which is why it was a surprise:  Trados Team - 24.11.1 Release
We are working on improving this process, so we get announcements out at the same time for all product offerings.

We are likely to leave the old view for around 3 months, to have sufficient time to adjust and give feedback on further improvements.
It's very rare for us to redesign a view as extensively as this one, but it's something we had on our plans to do for a long while based on feedback, so hopefully it won't happen too often going forward.

Thanks,
Luis

Hi Ralf,

this was released last Monday. The announcement for Team was only posted yesterday unfortunately, which is why it was a surprise:  Trados Team - 24.11.1 Release
We are working on improving this process, so we get announcements out at the same time for all product offerings.

We are likely to leave the old view for around 3 months, to have sufficient time to adjust and give feedback on further improvements.
It's very rare for us to redesign a view as extensively as this one, but it's something we had on our plans to do for a long while based on feedback, so hopefully it won't happen too often going forward.

Thanks,
Luis

Thanks again!
I do like surprises but not in this context... ;)

Good to know the legacy layout will be around for three months.

Best, Ralf