Ecosystem:Foundations 15.5 Planning issue

Themes 📋

1. Find our north star design from 2 to 1 in the final round of testing!
2. Find 3 MVCs for our north star design by end of October
3. Evaluate and iterate on feedback for the Menu Menu change in 15.4 and update the docs!
4. More Listbox discovery and Pajamas Migration Day on the 23rd!

Looking ahead - Prioritized themes over the next three milestones

Short term roadmap

Previous releases

• 15.1 Navigation design exploration (3 designs through validation), Frontload discovery for components
• 15.2 Continue discovery for components, ideate on north star vision for navigation, spike on nav tracking, generate 5 designs for navigation north star
• 15.3 Refine and test navigation concepts using the repeatable navigation process, Finalize Menu Menu evaluation, final regex counts for Pajamas, discovery/delegation of all dropdowns (listbox/disclosure)

• 15.4 Ship Menu Menu!!! Decide on two prototypes
• 15.5 Take 2 designs to 1. Break down the first 3 MVCs from our user tests on navigation
• 15.6-15.9 Have navigation in the app behind a user opt in in the UI (3 releases)
• 15.9 - 16.0 Evaluate data from the release of navigation and execute A/B test rollouts to evaluate non impact to paid conversion rates with the use of the navigation

Validation Track 🔎

Category:Design System

• ⏩ ⏩ Dropdown > Update styles (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1251 - closed)

Category:Navigation & Settings

• Complete KR1 and begin KR2, with the goal being:
  • Narrow down north star design to a single direction
  • Utilize RITE testing to make rapid improvements to the direction
• If confidence is strong, we can also begin KR3 by breaking out areas of the north star that we can start working to deliver

foundationtypography

• ⏩ ⏸ move to 15.6: Inter typeface exploration (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1412 - closed)
• ⏩ ⏸ move to 15.6: Monospace typeface exploration (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1414 - closed)
• ⏩ ⏸ move to 15.6: Typography scale(s) exploration (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1413 - closed)

Build Track 🛠

Category:Design System

• ⏩ Navigation > Cross link nav docs (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1367 - closed)
• ⏩ Spike: GlFilteredSearch: Stop treating spaces s... (gitlab-org/gitlab-ui#1803 - closed)
  • ⏩ To get the plan for: GlFilteredSearch token value is multiple words ... (gitlab-org/gitlab-ui#1438 - closed) which might be %15.5
• FY23 Q3 Foundations KR1: Updated Pajamas IA th... (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1378 (closed))

Listbox discovery for Pajamas component migrations:

• Listbox: Support for separators/dividers (gitlab-org/gitlab-ui#1873 - closed)
• Listbox: Create semgrep rules (gitlab-org/frontend/pajamas-adoption-scanner#18 - closed)
• Listbox: Support for validation (gitlab-org/gitlab-ui#1939)

Category:Navigation & Settings

• TBD

Documentation

There are no customer features shipping this release but we still be updating all of the docs for the Main Menu change

• Navigation > Cross link nav docs (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1367 - closed)

Bug work 🐛

In order to comply with the "Next Prioritization work" (gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com#13537 (closed)), we are going to focus on the following typebug issues. These are our oldest bugs:

• ⏩ ⏩ (Move to %15.4, needs UX support) Follow-up from "Replace styled discussion reply... (gitlab-org/gitlab#321901)
• ⏩ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/368880+
• Disabled radio buttons render grayish square un... (gitlab-org/gitlab-ui#1958 - closed)

Maintenance work 🏗️

In order to comply with the "Next Prioritization work" (gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com#13537 (closed)), we are going to focus on the following typemaintenance issues:

• TBD