How We're Thinking About the Dashboard

Hi everyone, hope you're doing well.

We're starting a log. Every so often we'll write down what we've been working on and what we're thinking about. Some of it will be finished, a lot of it won't be.

First one is about the dashboard.

What we've been noticing

A few of you have mentioned that parts of the dashboard are harder to get around than they should be. We've been sitting with that, and here's roughly where we've landed.

Some pages are carrying too much. The thing you do every day sits next to the thing you do once a year, so the rare one gets tucked away somewhere and then you can't find it when you need it.

Other things are split up in ways that made sense to us and probably don't to you. We grouped them by how the software is built, not by what you're actually trying to get done. So the menu ends up telling you the order we built things in, which isn't much help when you're trying to get through a Tuesday.

What we're thinking

Roughly, organizing around the jobs instead. Something along these lines:

Area	What would live there
Home	What needs you today
Schedule	Planning your classes, socials, and workshops
Passes	What you sell. Pricing, discount codes, who's holding what
Attendance	Who's coming, and who came
People	Your contacts and their history with you
Money	What came in, what went out, what's been paid out
Messages	Reaching everyone

Two of those don't really exist today. Everything about what you sell is currently spread across a few different places, and there's no single spot to see who's coming across all your activities at once. Both come up a lot.

Check-in stays where it is. It's a different job on a different device, usually with someone else holding the phone, and it works well as its own thing.

What we're not sure about

Plenty. We don't know yet which of these are their own section and which sit inside another one. We don't know what Home should open with. And we'd rather get that right than ship a reshuffle that moves the same problems around.

So none of this is final. It's where our heads are at.

A couple of other things

There's a Help section in the dashboard now with video walkthroughs. One's up so far, on how pricing works, and we're adding more. There's a button on that page to tell us what you'd like covered, so send those over and we'll work through them.

You can also book a call with us right from there. Pick a time that works and we'll talk.

Tell us what you think

Two things we'd love to hear:

Where do you go looking for something you know exists but can't remember where we put it?

And what do you open first when you sit down to work?

contact@whoteaches.com, or grab a slot and tell us in person.

More soon.