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Gitlab's in-project navigation recently changed, Everyone on my team was confused.

• sytse 10y ago
  We know that navigation redesigns are confusing. But we want to keep iterating to make it better. We explained the reasoning behind the change in https://about.gitlab.com/2016/06/06/navigation-redesign/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/06/06/navigation-redesign/
  • daxelrod 10y ago
    Almost all of the navigation redesign was excellent. The information hierarchy was made much clearer. The only thing that confuses me and my coworkers about the new design is the decision to hide the left navigation bar behind a hamburger menu by default. It's great that we can pin it open now, but why hide all of that useful navigation behind an ambiguous, easy to miss, unlabeled icon?
    • sytse 10y ago
      Thanks, glad to hear the new navigation was a success. I hope that someone else can chime in on the hamburger default.
    • randx 10y ago
      > but why hide all of that useful navigation behind an ambiguous, easy to miss, unlabeled icon? Few reasons: 1. After redesign its possible to use application without sidebar for most of day-to-day tasks. I personally use sidebar 2-3 times per day while using GitLab whole day. Keeping it hidden by default allow me to focus on context and save screen space (really valuable on small laptop) 2. Both sidebar and project navigation visible at same time confused a lot of users. For example user clicked on sidebar "Issues" while they believed it will take them to project issues page.