GitLab Navigation UX, 29 Sep 2021

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From YouTube: Navigation Update: 2021-09-29

Description

Last weeks update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f03CnWkEhGE

Links referenced in video:

- [Research] Evaluation of navigation proposals impacting the location of Deployments, Infrastructure and Package&Registry items in the left sidebar: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/-/issues/1592
- [MR] Draft: Move Pages menu entry to top level: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/70808
- [MR] Add guidance around top-level menu item additions: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-services/design.gitlab.com/-/merge_requests/2553

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Hey everyone: this is tori davis. I am the product design manager for the foundations group, I'm going to go over just a few updates from navigation uh since the uh recording last week. If you didn't see, last week's video I'll go ahead and link it in the video description here uh so for this week, I'll start by updating everyone on requirements.

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This merge request was merged yesterday, so on.com you can already see. Requirements now lives under issues. Here I did give our support team a heads up about this change, because we decided that the low usage did not support the need for in-app messaging. So just in case we do hear from customers.

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I can stay in the loop there and see what feedback we do get if any. Additionally, the documentation has been updated. So at the top here that you can see, there's a note that says and 14.4 requirements has been moved under issues, and it will also stay here within the version history over time.

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So next, um just a quick update on the research that's happening regarding deployments, infrastructure and package and registry anna is working on the script for this, and I have a meeting with her tomorrow just to discuss any lingering questions.

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The goal is to get this script complete prior to next wednesday, and anna has also been working with adam on ways to speed up the recruitment process, because for a similar study we did a few milestones ago. I think it took around six weeks to recruit all the participants that we needed and we hope that using another tool will really speed up the recruitment process and just make it easier and faster.

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So, lastly, for today I wanted to highlight this recent proposal, which was to move pages from a sub nav item within settings to a top level navigation item, and the reasoning was twofold. The first was that we wanted to highlight the new jam stack functionality, that's being worked on, and the second was to ensure that there's space within the navigation to build out future functionality.

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uh This proposal was closed because it reflects really the same reasoning. That requirements was introduced at a top level menu item originally, which we just moved. They are looking at whether pages would be better suited within another area such as maybe deployments as a sub nav item.

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As a result of this merge request, I started drafting some guidelines in pajamas, which includes documentation for proposing new top level menu items. So this merge request states that new editions are very deliberate. They should they should be informed by data that supports that their key or foundational functionality within our devops platform.

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It also states that we don't add new top level nav items in order to either improve discoverability of new features or optimize for the potential future.

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So if we want to improve discoverability, then we should look for other opportunities within the product to really intelligently highlight those features to users, and if we believe that there's going to be additional functionality for a given feature, then we should be forward thinking, but we shouldn't over optimize our navigation for what may be what we may need later. So, as features are developed and added, we can look into what changes may need to occur to support that growing feature.

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So I'll link to this merge request in the video description as well. So if anyone has any feedback, please do share it in the merge request and that's it for this week. So I will see you all next time.