Make GitLab (especially issues) less scary for non-developers

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  • Teams may find the complexity of GitLab daunting.
  • In particular, if want non-developers to be able to quickly ideate and have collaborative conversations in GitLab, this may be daunting for users who have to look at sidebar with many fields, and a navigation with many menu items.
  • How we can we improve this?
  • Perhaps the ability to hide or simplify the UI elements in a page to only show when necessary?
Edited Jun 24, 2025 by 🤖 GitLab Bot 🤖
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