Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Improve the org selector UX #16828

Closed
gtsiolis opened this issue Mar 13, 2023 · 1 comment
Closed

Improve the org selector UX #16828

gtsiolis opened this issue Mar 13, 2023 · 1 comment
Labels
aspect: navigation component: dashboard needs visual design team: webapp Issue belongs to the WebApp team type: improvement Improves an existing feature or existing code

Comments

@gtsiolis
Copy link
Contributor

gtsiolis commented Mar 13, 2023

Problem to solve

Currently, the org selector sits in the top left corner of the top navigation. This creates some issues like the following:

  1. The new org auto-generated avatar clashes visually with the Gitpod logo on the dashboard.
  2. There could be an intermediate solution to resolving this by improving the layout of the top-left area (see screenshot below), however, with the move to ~dedicated, our target users, etc, switching orgs will be less frequent or useful.
  3. The positioning of the top navigation links (workspaces, projects) depend on the team name length, see screenshot below.
  4. Once and if we introduce the ability to change the auto-generated avatar, keeping the org selector on the left will feel almost like a bug for our team which would be using the Gitpod logo twice, see screenshot below.

Recently discussed with @selfcontained about this and attempted to move the org selector to the right, see #16423.

See also relevant discussion (internal). Cc @svenefftinge @atduarte

1. Org avatar 2. Early draft for top left area 3. Org name length 4. Duplicate logos
Screenshot 2023-03-13 at 17 37 03 Screenshot 2023-03-13 at 17 35 38 Frame 1296 Frame 1299

Proposal

TBD (To be discussed)

Ideas worth exploring:

  1. Moving the org selector to the right.
  2. Merging the org selection with the user avatar.
  3. Merging the org menu with the user menu.
  4. Introducing a secondary help menu for secondary links like docs, changelog, etc.
  5. Skip surfacing the org avatar when the org menu is collapsed.
  6. An alternative approach could be to center the Gitpod logo, see [dashboard] move org menu left #16164 (comment).
@gtsiolis gtsiolis added component: dashboard needs visual design type: improvement Improves an existing feature or existing code team: webapp Issue belongs to the WebApp team aspect: navigation labels Mar 13, 2023
@gtsiolis
Copy link
Contributor Author

gtsiolis commented May 2, 2023

Closing this in favor of UX-25. Cc @selfcontained @mbrevoort because of a relevant discussion (internal).

@gtsiolis gtsiolis closed this as completed May 2, 2023
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
aspect: navigation component: dashboard needs visual design team: webapp Issue belongs to the WebApp team type: improvement Improves an existing feature or existing code
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

1 participant