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CreationFlow Offers a Collaboration and Project Management Suite
We’ve reviewed a number of collaboration tools including Canadian-based ConceptShare and Scotland-based Colaab. Today I took a look at Argentinian-based CreationFlow. CreationFlow is a Flash-based collaboration and project management suite.
You setup tasks inside of projects and then assign users to the tasks. The users can create reviews which is where you can draw (as shown below) to add notes to a review. I found the service a bit more difficult to get comfortable with than ConceptShare/Colaab, but once I got the hang of it, it is well designed. You can also switch the language to Spanish.
CreationFlow is more than just "stick up an image and get feedback" – it’s more like a team-based visual project management tool. It would work well for design agencies and other teams where client reviews are needed to approve tasks to continue with a project. I like the tracking component which makes it easy to confirm that a user accepted a design or other piece of creative.
I think their pricing model could use a bit of tweaking – they need to lower the number of users on the free plan to 1 or 2 (from 5) and introduce a pricing plan that’s less than their lowest plan currently at $50/month. Take the 5 user plan and set the price at $19/month or something similar. There’s just too big a jump from free to $50/month. Move them up the plans slowly I think is best.
My suggestion is to take all of the collaboration tools for a free trial with your team and determine which is best for your particular needs.
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Sounds interesting.. I have found the best paid plan rates are of Deskaway, they recently got mentioned on Life Hack.
Also checked out liquidplanner, it has been getting quite a lot of mention.
Creation flow sounds interesting though… will check it out.
The first thing you check when buying a collaboration tool is how the site looks like, whether it’s professional or not. I’m afraid to say that the creationflow website looks extremely outdated. I think this is affecting their sales. The collaboration tool market is extremely competitive and they should take care of these little things.
On the other hand, the application in itself looks very promising.
What I look for in a collaboration tool is how deep its understanding of the domain deliverables is. A generic collaboration and project management tool is no longer enough. What’s more relevant is for collaboration and project management features to be built into the authoring tool for your deliverables.
For example, if your project was a software development project, then you might want to give Code Roller a try. In Code Roller, you can author requirements, information architecture, use cases, designs, and test plans. These deliverables automatically get processed in a project management style workflow. So, when the release gets frozen, then review tasks get scheduled for the analysts to review the requirements. This is just one example.
Looks nice! I started using DeskAway (http://ww.deskaway.com) a few days ago and feel that it is much promising than other tools I have used. Also it has got a lot of feedback on Mashable and Lifehack recently which adds confidence.