What is the prefered place for Environments, Serverless and Kubernetes clusters navigation items?
What did we learn?
- 92% of respondents think Kubernetes and Serverless should be grouped separately from Operations.
- Almost 40% of respondents think Environments should be within CI/CD. Next is Releases, with about 25% and followed by Infrastructure with 17%. Operations, which is where it currently sits, is everyone's least favorite choice (14%).
What's this issue all about?
For some time, we were just adding new items into Operations submenu without considering influence of such actions on the information architecture. This lead to a situation where we all agree that the menu is messy and requires redesign.
Because we were able to distill the proposals to two questions, we decided to do a survey where we asked participants about preferred place for some of the navigation items.
What research questions are you trying to answer?
Where should Environments navigation item live? Where should Serverless and Kubernetes clusters navigation items live?
What persona, persona segment, or customer type experiences the problem most acutely?
All personas relevant for operations
Relevant links
Preview survey Default_Report.pdf
Checklist
Preparation
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Review prior research on this topic -
Design and review several variants of IA structure
Research study
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Prepare a research plan -
Set up a tree test for each variant of the structureSet up survey for each variant of the structure -
Gather responses -
Analyze results -
Report results
Edited by Marcel van Remmerden