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Hello Jacob, glad to see Gitlab employees around! For the assignee dropdowm, it was roughly 6-8 weeks ago. I just went back to an old project and things seem t
by KeitIG 9y ago
Hello Jacob, glad to see Gitlab employees around!
For the assignee dropdowm, it was roughly 6-8 weeks ago. I just went back to an old project and things seem to be much faster now.
In the past 3 years, I had to work on Gitlab a few times (for a few months every time), and at the end of every project, I had this feeling of: it was slow (push speed at the time could take 5-10 seconds when it was almost instant on Github), and basically all request were slow (dynamic dropdowns, posting a comment...). It is good to see you are focused on fixing these problems though :)
For the UI thing, a few points:
- imho, there's just too much on screen. I would say Gitlab is to Github what IntelliJ is to Atom: too much features I don't want to use/see. They just distract me.
- the container in the middle is too large, there too many word per line and things get hard to read
- Even with the breadcrumb, it is really hard to see "where" I am in the app (which project)
- In the issue details page, it is hard to see the continuity of the comments, what is a comment and what is an action ("assignee changed from to..."). I cannot quickly go through an issue an getting on overview of the discussion easily.
I think these are mostly tiny UI things to change, and only with some typeography improvements, some borders and better contrasts, things will be a lot more clear.
Of course, all of this is highly subjective.
5mn of CSS tweaks: https://imgur.com/a/FLTJT https://imgur.com/a/FLTJT (ofc it adds other issues/concerns, but you get the idea, I am no designer, but sensible to nice UIs)
- svesselov 9y ago"I think these are mostly tiny UI things to change, and only with some typeography improvements, some borders and better contrasts, things will be a lot more clear." YES! Couldn't agree more. We (the UX Team) are pushing hard to get changes like this in. I opened up a new issue to capture the comments here https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/42331 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/42331. I will add your insights to the issue, much appreciated! And...LOVE that you used that example in your 5min tweak <3