Simplicity, Visualization, Consensus: xTiles Unveils its Core Values
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The idea of creating a tool that is simple and clear for all users goes a long way back. After years of working with various productivity tools — switching back and forth between Notion, Miro, and Google Docs — our team has realized that none of them cater to the audience looking for simplicity and order. There are too many bells and whistles, distractions, messiness, and difficulties. All of them obstruct work.
But does a productivity tool really need to be complex? What if there was a simple and easy-to-use product for both individual and teamwork purposes?
To answer these questions, we developed an app that puts three core values to the fore: simplicity, visualization, and consensus.
Simplicity
xTiles is simple to the core. It is an app with no add-ons, complexities, or distractions.
As the first step in our pursuit of simplicity, we opted for cards, an age-old method for increasing individual productivity. In the past, big thinkers used physical cards to make notes for arranging and grouping ideas. Thanks to this method, the late German sociologist Niklas Luhmann authored over 70 books and 400 scholarly articles, becoming one of the most prolific writers in the history of humankind.
Using cards as a starting point, we proceeded to wonder: How do you ensure that you do not sink in the pool of your own ideas?
To us, the answer was natural: By creating an infinite canvas where cards, much like sticking notes, resemble a neatly organized collection of inter-related ideas. They serve as units of thoughts with clear borders, displayed on a squeaky-clean white canvas.
To preclude the document from becoming messy as the number of cards augments, we betted on functions that are clear-cut and intuitive. They include drag’n’drops; deep dive; tabs within a document; embedded pictures, videos, and links; sub-pages. As a result, the users get a well-organized, easy-to-navigate space. Some of our early adopters have confirmed that we are on the right track, describing our product as minimalistic, no noise, easy, aha-effect. And that is to name a few.
Visualization
xTiles takes visualization to a whole new level. Rather than providing bits and pieces of scattered information, the tool gives you a bird’s-eye view of the cards, creating the big picture.
The deep dive feature serves to enhance the tool’s built-in visualization. It enables users to dive into cards while remaining on the visual level with all the other ones. In other words, you scroll down within the card’s borders only, not the screen.
Combined with the tool’s simplicity, this feature gives an unparalleled experience, enabling the users to consume information in its context.
Since xTiles offers sub-features for visualization, such as highlighted information and embedded pictures, it is always easy to find your way around and save time. The users know where to go, what to do, and where to look. Our early adopters have praised this design, noting that it makes “everything clear in the blink of an eye.”
Our clients describe xTiles as a place where you write your aha moments and store them carefully for further use
Visualization also matters since it activates spatial thinking. Most traditional tools are inherently linear, which contradicts our train of thought. Our brain tends to generate ideas whimsically, and before we are able to make sense of them, we need to see them.
xTiles’s cards are a great way to do it. The app provides you with a clean canvas, where you can write down your ideas on cards, arrange them, group them, and eliminate the unnecessary ones.
Consensus
The xTiles’s clarity is great not just for personal use, but for team communication as well. From the outset, we were developing a product for present-day, robust teams, distributed ones included. Whether due to conflicting styles of work, asynchronous work mode, or poorly prepared documents, excellent teamwork remains one of the biggest challenges for companies of all sizes. The cost of team miscommunication has been estimated at $62.4 million per year — $37 billion.
xTiles aims to fix that. Pillared by simplicity and visualization, the app offers a collaborative space for teams to work together in real-time, sharing cards and elaborating on ideas. The goal is to simplify the communication between teammates, providing customized features. Unlike the standard A4 paper, xTiles incentivizes you to be concise, tidy, and clear so that your teammates understand what is going on.
Every time the users log into xTiles and see orderly arranged cards in a bird’s-eye view, or open a sub-page to delve into a topic, they do so fast and easily. They see the connections, save time on consuming information that would have been otherwise scattered in different documents. They are free to share the cards via links and work on the documents together in real-time.
Since xTiles has a neat, well-organized card-based design, your teammates automatically focus on the things that matter.
As a result, they are likely to be on the same page at all times, reaching consensus and completing the projects faster without compromising the quality. It is a win-win for the team, the company at large, and its clients since better communication leads to greater satisfaction among employees. Meanwhile, prolificacy results in higher income and increases the likelihood of the client becoming a repeat one.
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