Bad UI

I Love Zoho, because of the enormous functions it has when compared to other Project tools out there. But despite all the great features it has, your Product is horrible in terms of UI

Its like going into a big warehouse, where things are thrown here and there. it difficult to find anything .

As a user, when i login to Zoho, in my dashboard, i should see all the task, Meetings, to Do and Message assigned me for that day in one single screen or something similar to that.

Ilike the Message features in basecamp, which allows all users working in a project to communicate and reply to it in the same place, rather than sending emails forth and back. Also Calender and dashboard looks great in base camp

When i suggested to my customer about using Basecamp or Zoho Projects, his response was.
" Google would be preferred, and next best is BaseCamp. (not Zoho please) "

My company has been using Zoho Project for more than two years. But we are currently planning to shift to basecamp as the UI is not allowing users to use the product effectively. Someone has posted in the forums somewhere , that the ui was done by some Programmers and not by designers. i agree with him completely

To Zoho People :

Is there any plans to change to the UI in immediate future.

To other forum users:

Please give your views on the UI

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