Exploration: Navigation sidebar refresh
What's this issue about?
As I've been reading different SUS verbatim comments, observing what is coming down the road, and dogfooding the navigation sidebar I've come to identify a few ways that the current experience is falling short.
- It's not illustrating the hierarchy of GitLab to help users traverse the platform
- It's sometimes overly simplistic, and not in a sophisticated way. While at other times it’s completely overwhelming.
- The information architecture may conflict with user expectations or mental models
- Context switching, particularly getting to a project is non-obvious
- Placement of certain items or functions isn't coherent
Goal
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Explore 50 navigation sidebar variations -
See what concepts resonate with others → Share thoughts in Figma or Design Management -
Identify ideas to cherry pick for validation or further refinement
Edited by Austin Regnery