The Index/B2B Comparison · Project Tools
Northstar, Tessera, Pivot, Ledger, Daybook, and the rest — evaluated by 14 design leads from companies between 12 and 1,400 people.
Design teams are an unusual user group for project software. They want speed, but they also want context. They want lightness, but they need to track a lot of state. They tend to abandon tools more readily than engineering teams, and they tend to know a sharper "no" sooner.
This piece is the result of conversations with 14 design leads — at companies ranging from 12 to 1,400 people — about which project tools they've actually adopted, kept, and abandoned in the past 18 months.
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