Manage:Foundations 16.6 Planning (Nov 15, 2023)

Themes 📋

1. Navigation will ship to all users at GitLab! Our new navigation is monumental in our push to move useability forward and has been iterated on over the past 4 months from our user feedback.
   1. Execute the toggle removal and move all of our users over to the new experience! Link to Issue
   2. Communication the toggle removal:
      1. Create a dismissible alert to announce the new navigation
      2. Update our tutorial in the docs to match
      3. Let GitLab know in Slack that this is happening and the relevant details
      4. Create a release post and advocate for the top!
2. Execute on any medium to high navigation accessibility findings.
3. Final polish of navigation including solution validation for the admin button, which is a recurring feedback theme.

Category:Navigation & Settings

Validation & Design Track 🔎

• priority1 workflowdesign Increase affordance for accessing the Admin Area (gitlab-org/gitlab#415854 - closed) • Thomas Hutterer • 16.7
• Assign a designer Avoid jumping from a collection to pinned (gitlab-org/gitlab#421011 - closed) • Thomas Hutterer • 16.9

Build Track 🛠

accessibilitymedium

•   Nav eval > Small breakpoint behavior (gitlab-org/gitlab#426760 - closed) • Scott de Jonge • 16.6
•   Nav eval > Hamburger button insufficient contrast (gitlab-org/gitlab#427952 - closed) • James Rushford • 16.6
•   Nav eval > Announce when nav item is pinned/unp... (gitlab-org/gitlab#424722 - closed) • Scott de Jonge • 16.6

Category:Design System

Validation & Design Track 🔎

• continue moving towards getting the heading scale into the product gitlab-org/gitlab-ui#2137 (moved) gitlab-org/gitlab-services&19
• continue prep for the settings review gitlab-org/gitlab#424311

Build Track 🛠

• Navigation toggle removal
• Navigation dismissable alert: Dismissible alert to announce the navigation to... (gitlab-org/gitlab#427780 - closed)

cc @gitlab-org/manage/foundations