GitLab UX Team, 24 Mar 2022

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From YouTube: Gina's Lighting Demo: Trello, GitHub — “Restructure MRs” workshop

Description

Gina Doyle (Product Designer:Runner & Pipeline Insights) quickly walks through a couple of tools (Trello and GitHub) that do a good job at solving some of the problems we are looking into as part of the "restructure MR" workshop.

Learn more:
- Issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/355468
- Mural: https://app.mural.co/t/gitlab2474/m/gitlab2474/1647336992246/276cdf1c92474f8da3621212a2e4cfb0e07b19b1

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Hey everyone, I'm gonna, walk through um two of the tools I wanted to talk about in the lightning demo. One of them is trello. So what I'm looking at right now is um a specific card which I would connect to a specific, mr. But uh what I'd really like about trello is that they they do a good job at highlighting the information that you need to know immediately.

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So I think like, for example, there's a lot of extra things that can be included into a card and some of those appear on hover, and then some of them are in this like side panel, but another cool thing that I think they do. A really good job at is showing the activity.

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So right now you can. It concentrates on the comments that are shown, but if you show details, then it will show like all of the possible changes, and this reminds me of if you update a description um in your issue or like, or you update text in the mr or something like that um and listing out those different activity feeds.

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I like that ability to hide and show those um and then the other thing is that they have power ups, which are kind of similar to they're, like plug-ins, but remind me of mr widgets for for gitlab and I'll show you one that has a power-up.

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So if it does, it shows it like it highlights it which makes sense, um but then you're still able to see all the other things that you can do on the side, and I think again that they do a good job at highlighting the importance of this, and it's just like a one click to be able to find it. It's a private repo. So that's why it can't be found and then github. It was another one.

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I wanted to highlight that I think again does a good job at highlighting what's most important and it's interesting patternfly is a design system. They use a review app using netlify and and surge, and that's how the github communicates that through a comment rather than like attaching it into a um like.

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In the mr status, which I thought was interesting and then I always just think that they do a really good job at showing the activity and giving like a really direct link to be able to seeing those so another thing that they do, that we also do is split it up by tabs so that you can see your commit file, changes and then checks which I'm not as familiar with all in one view- and I I think that's great as well- and I think that is all okay thanks.