Feedback & Feature Requests

Dovetail 3.0 has nice features to discover, but It feels like "intuitive navigation" is not really given. E.g. "Add data" was yesterday a visible button (one click), now its nested within a "add data menu"... Also all "data views" were visible at first sight (within a sidebar on the left). Now I need to open a menu (one click more). And also deactivate all filters to see a new entry that might not have already added a timestamp. Yesterday I could a new entry without a timestamp, even if the data view used this timestamp as filter. it was just there and I could continue editing it. Now I have to deactivate the timestamp filter to see an entry, which has not yet the timestamp attribute/note added... But when I deactivate the timestamp filter, the list of entries is suuuuuper long. Did you test with real users? :D

as the first full-time user researcher at my company, I found it immensely valuable to be able to set up workspace-wide tags and fields on Dovetail, and it really helped convince the rest of "my company of the value of not just Dovetail as a platform, but of user research in general. I feel that that capability is vital for smaller businesses and teams just getting started with systematizing user feedback - precisely why I'm sad to see it being pushed to the most expensive plan on your platform. Just thought I'd share this with you. All the best, and thank you once again!" Milan

AND OR operators to refine results Advanced filtering to exclude objects that will yield 0 results Allow Select all for search results Improve Contributor filter to produce more accurate search results

Archiving workspace fields would be useful for us. We use a workspace field to align research with large annual goals. Each year, we will have more goals, and we need the ability to filter for work done for previous years' goals. Each year, several more goals will be added, thus making the list cumbersome and long before it's time to archive the research. The ability to remove a field value from the options while still maintaining the ability to filter on it through archiving or some other means would be valuable.

It would be helpful to be able to export user groups, projects, references, contributors, objects - just about anything one might want to count or manipulate into a CSV for easier manipulation and verification against other internal datasets. Not being able to to do leads to cumbersome workarounds.

Our platform is complex and sometimes additional context is necessary. Being able to add a screenshot on the canvas would help us understand the highlights or group of highlights.

I would like to create a summary based on one project (or several) interviews in the project.

Highlight and tag silent parts of videos or images to add important context that is visually shown

Hi! One of our main goals for creating a global taxonomy is to better understand our users through various research projects. We aim to uncover patterns over time, especially since users occasionally provide additional insights that we may need later. This is essential for our repository, as it allows us to identify trends that we might otherwise miss without effective search capabilities. By systematically organizing and tagging our data, we can facilitate better analysis and retrieval of information, turning our repository into a valuable resource for generating actionable insights. Currently, Dovetail does not offer comprehensive features in this area, but I believe that this capability is crucial for the success of research repositories. My question is: How can we effectively generate these insights, and where should we create them within the platform?

Hi! Sometimes, I ask for feedback when it comes to research plans, but even if I am the owner of the space/project, I cannot resolve the comment, which makes me frustrated since I have to ask the owner of the comment to manually delete it.