Package: Solution Validation of the Container Registry UI
What's this issue all about?
GitLab's Container Registry is a powerful feature that allows users to publish, store, and utilize images for their DevOps lifecycle. We have combined research around the current UI along with the addition of new features to create a new user experience. We need to validate that this new experience enables users to utilize the registry and understand the details easily.
What are the overarching goals for the research?
Solution Validation of the issue: gitlab#31640 (closed)
What hypotheses and/or assumptions do you have?
The new user interface (included in the issue) will help users better utilize the features and create an enhanced sense of trust with the system by bringing the interface in alignment with the rest of the GitLab offering.
What questions are you trying to answer?
Core questions
- Can users interpret the data shown on the UI?
- Do user feel trust when using the interface as the Container Registry is a "Set it and forget it" style feature (requiring a high level of trust)?
- What improvements to the interface are most important to our users?
- Are there areas of the new interface that will confuse or slow down our users?
Additional questions
- Is there any missing information or data a user would want?
What persona, persona segment, or customer type experiences the problem most acutely?
- DevOps Managers
- System Administrators
- Sr. Engineers
What business decisions will be made based on this information?
- If the package team should move forward building the new interface.
- How to break apart the design into iterative steps that each deliver value to the users.
What, if any, prior research have you done?
- User Interviews: Retention and Garbage Collection Problem Validation
- Survey: Understand package data priorities and organisation
- Interviews: Understanding package data user needs and wants
What timescales do you have in mind for the research?
12.9 would be ideal so we can move forward with the container registry UI.
Who will be leading the research?
- Iain Camacho
What is the link to your prototype/design artifact?
tbd