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📣 Dogfood 🐶 Experiment feedback issue: New navigation

New navigation, Experiment

During this stage, please see the epic for an update on our progress.. You might be posting a bug that is actually something we haven't built yet. )

Overview

The Navigation redesign will be available to dogfood by all GitLab team members starting in %15.11 through %16.0 with the goal of getting real feedback.

  • This experiment should not break your core workflows (parity with old)
  • Three major enhancements to Navigation should increase useability: Our reclassification into only 6 top-level buckets, the Your Work navigation, and Pinning (allows custom navigation pins on projects/groups and will be delivered a week or two into the beta)

Instructions - please read before posting!

Thanks so much for helping dogfood the new navigation experience! Before leaving a comment, be sure to checkout our list of things we are already aware of and plan on addressing.

  • Leave all feedback in this issue, not slack
  • We will read all of your feedback!
  • We will not respond to all feedback
  • All found issues will be logged in the action summary of this issue

This is known

This is known

🐞 Navigation bugs (&9930 - closed)

The UI still needs to be polished, don't report UI bugs yet unless they impede you in some way
↳ ✨ Polishing the navigation redesign (#391523 - closed)

When using the Admin Area, the navigation experience will revert back to current interface
↳ #391501 (closed) → Convert admin menu from haml to panel (!115162 - merged) • Joseph Wambua • 15.11

When impersonating a user, the navigation experience will revert back to current interface
↳ Super sidebar: Admin impersonation (#396689 - closed)

There is no logged out state for the new navigation yet
↳ Navigation - Unauthenticated state (#389603 - closed)

Settings pages do not match the language of the navigation elements
↳ Investigate nomenclature of settings for interi... (#404435 - closed)

Visibility options do not reflect the new collections
↳ Adjust the feature visibility toggles under pro... (#404466)

Help uses the Your Work sidebar context
↳ Include the global Help menu links as exposed l... (#382329)

Settings is not meant to be a collection. It will have a distinct nested experience within a group or project.
↳ Build a dedicated settings context (#378545)

Global search filters have not moved into the sidebar
↳ Move global search left rail items to new left ... (#382328 - closed)

There is redundancy between the page titles and the breadcrumb
↳ Remove pages titles when possible (#404437)

If you can't access the navigation sidebar from the middle of a page, then wait until we've been able to release a few things.
↳ Make interacting with the navigation sidebar se... (#393468 - closed)

Many keyboard shortcuts are not working yet. ↳ Fix shortcuts in new navigation (#404468 - closed)

Please share your feedback for the new navigation below in a comment!

Actions we are taking from the feedback:

  • We used this beta feedback to make critical fixes, 22 are related to this issue.
  • Now, we'll continue our actions on the new feedback issue here: #409005 (closed)
Edited by Christen Dybenko