Navigation update - Aug 9, 2022
Aug 9, 2022
Overview
We are getting rolling on 15.3, and testing has begun!
Themes and Direction
- Direction for Navigation & Settings: gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com!108974 (merged)
- Added a breakdown of 3 ways we are moving forward to ensure we build and test the right things for our users:
- North Star vision
- Quarterly SUS theme review
- Data and tracking
- Added a breakdown of 3 ways we are moving forward to ensure we build and test the right things for our users:
Design:
- Piloted research sessions for navigation concept testing and launched test sessions to full sample. Data collection ended on
2022-08-08
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/-/issues/2001 - Menu Menu: We are preparing for solution validation, which will be similar to the last round and will include 3 versions – A control (current) and two alternate solutions gitlab-org/gitlab#366082 (closed)
- Continuing work on a script to test the Menu Menu
Data:
- No updates to our data
Roadmap updates and shipped items:
- We closed the spike on finding navigation items that don't have tracking and found the inconsistencies we need to fix: gitlab-org/gitlab#364121 (closed)
- Added a new issue to start our own tracking on every item: gitlab-org/gitlab#369016 (closed) in %15.3 and %15.4 - this will break out in to implementation issue
- A community contribution cleaning up the avatars has shipped
🚀 gitlab-org/gitlab!94025 (merged) - 3 other changes are still in workflowin review
- Add a tooltip to merge requests shortcut (gitlab-org/gitlab!94890 - merged)
-
Resolve "Move Group Push Rules to Settings > Re... (gitlab-org/gitlab!92977 - merged)
- Challenge was that Settings isn't usually showing for the
Group Maintainer
, so we added some logic that allows them to see it without breaking permission.
- Challenge was that Settings isn't usually showing for the
- Fix namespace avatars (gitlab-org/gitlab!92810 - merged)
Edited by Nick Brandt