Left Sidebar IA: Competitor Analysis

Goals and objectives

The goal of this issue is to conduct an analysis of the navigation structures of competitor products. We aim to see if there are patterns that are common to DevOps software products and compare them with our navigation structures.

Products

Key findings

  • Most sites use a combination of global, contextual, and hierarchical navigation design
  • 5/6 sites organized content by products/features. Firebase organized products/features with higher-level buckets that were JTBD/task-oriented. Information architecture was not always consistent in these products.
  • All sites provided both contextual and dedicated access to settings
Edited by Katherine Okpara