Ecosystem:Foundations 15.6 Planning issue

Themes 📋

1. 3 MVCs created and refined for the North Star navigation design
2. Dropbox discovery which will help us know how big to set the GitLab shared OKR for Q4 - gitlab-org/gitlab#376259 (closed)
3. Have every Pajamas component tracked with semgrep - 5 remaining components by the Oct 30th
4. Have linked issues showing in the Pajamas Adoption scanner. Scan API for integration issues

Looking ahead - Near-term roadmap for navigation

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.
• 15.6 - Break down the first 3 MVCs from our user tests on navigation and create user opt-in
• 15.7-15.9 Have navigation in the app behind a user opt 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

• Complete FY23 Q3 Foundations KR1: Updated Pajamas IA th... (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1378 - closed)
• Align on terminology and Dropdown > Update docs to align with latest app... (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1442 - closed)
• Review the data visualization color palette: gitlab-org/gitlab#377507 (closed)
• Link > Consolidate efforts gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1444
• Establish card component requirements gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1446

foundationtypography

• Typography: Update Figma to use new default fonts (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1426 - closed)
• Typography scale(s) exploration (gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1413 - closed) When @seggenberger is back from PTO

Category:Navigation & Settings

• Continue research as needed on North Star designs Build a compelling vision as a north star for n... (gitlab-org/gitlab#365403 - closed)

Build Track 🛠

Category:Design System

• direction Continue dropdown discovery for the GitLab OKR and get a goal number - gitlab-org/gitlab#376259 (closed)
• direction Finish Semgrep for 5 remaining components by Oct 30th for our team OKR:
  • Segmented Control
  • Tab
  • Modal
  • Spinner
  • Skeleton Loader
  • Infinite Scroll - Research issue gitlab-org/gitlab#357323 (closed) + Semgrep
• Determine the implementation plan for typography: gitlab-org/gitlab#377737 (closed)
• Discovery work for ViewComponents: gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1428 (closed) and gitlab-org/gitlab#378430 (closed)
• Continue work on the date picker component gitlab-org/gitlab-ui!3058 (closed)
• Update Pajamas AI navigation as a result of 1378: gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1443 (closed))
• Pajamas Adoption Scanner (weight the following):
  • direction Weight and build Scan API for integration issues
  • View scan results as a table
  • Attach integration epics to components
  • Auto-issue creation
  • Consistent naming

Category:Navigation & Settings

• Engineering to create a list of 3 MVCs from the final north star designs
• Remove the Feature Flag for Menu menu removal @leipert to create issue
• Continue to follow our updates to the Top Navigation tracking in this MR and update our Sisense dashboards
• Bug - rejecting cookies affects Sidebar and Menu: gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com#1436 (closed)