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From YouTube: 13.3 Create UX team updates - Create: Editor

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https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/boards/1131977?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=group%3A%3Aeditor&milestone_title=13.3

Implement Web IDE button in diff tab of merge request
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/21654

Consolidate Edit and Web IDE buttons to single edit experience
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/221247

Update Snippets Icon in Navigation
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/229562

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Hey everybody mike nichols senior product designer for the editor group uh today, we're going to be looking at 13.3 and some of the ux items that we're working on in this milestone. So the first one I want to go over is implementing web id button in the diff tab. Merge request.

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This one's been open for a while, and we we're considering tackling it in this milestone. It's basically introducing the web id button in the changes tab of of a merge request. I bring this one open, because I think this one I bring this one up. So I think this is a interesting opportunity for us to collaborate pedro if you're watching this. I definitely would love your input here, as this touches the merge request and I understand maybe considering changing or removing uh some other buttons.

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So I want to make sure that this this issue is in line with uh the overall strategy there.

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The next one I want to look at is actually the combination of two issues so consolidating the edit web id buttons into a single edit experience. It's very much related to the survey on single file versus web id, so we spent a lot of time considering in the application. We have here's one example. If you're in a repository in a file view, you have two options here right you have the edit and the web id button. The edit takes you to what we commonly refer to as a single file editor.

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The web id will launch the web id experience. We've been spending a lot of time, thinking about the implications of having two buttons and two different experiences, so the survey was really to gather some data around.

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Why folks are choosing one over the other and help us guide the direction moving forward, and this consolidates the edit web id button into a single edit experience is the idea that, if we could use our split design split button.

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It's interesting, that's not loading, um but in our design pattern we have our split drop down design pattern. um This proposal is to investigate the idea of combining the edit and web ide buttons into a single button, with a split drop down.

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I think the interesting part of this is where the defaults lie and kind of the interaction of. If you choose one, does it remember that or do we stick with the default and also the naming conventions here are interesting, uh because edit and web id are kind of imply different things when they're both very much editing experience, so we'll be taking a look at that in this milestone and moving forward with that, the last one I want to look at is kind of a fun. One is updating the snippets icon in the navigation.

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uh So traditionally, we've been using this kind of scissors icon, which uh may or may not be conveying uh the overall idea of snippets. So the thought process is: let's move towards an icon. That is more code related.

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um Since you know, snippets aren't really scissors, it's really more about kind of code and code sharing and that kind of stuff. So right now this is the leader in the clubhouse, uh but being that uh icons are largely subjective, I would love some feedback, especially since it's gonna show up on this sidebar menu, so we all have to see it on a daily basis. So I would love input and feedback if folks have opinions on the new icon choice.

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Beyond that we're doing a few error fixing and a few things that have pushed out from 13.2 as always feel free to reach out to me directly or comment in the issues, and I will link those in the description as well and thank.

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