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Re: Redesigning GitLab's navigation

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Post by sarahod »

btown wrote: post #30

Is it really accepted best practice for UX testing to use a sample size of 12? That sounds remarkably low to draw product conclusions.

GitLab’s UX Researcher here. TheCoreh has summed things up well but I thought I’d share my own thoughts.

During usability testing, you eventually reach a point where users start demonstrating the same behaviour. Once that happens, it’s not really worth speaking to more users, as you’re not learning anything new. You’re better to implement changes based on the user feedback you have and then re-test with different users. The navigation has been through 3 rounds of usability testing (24 users in total). Sometimes we tested with more than one prototype at once, hence us testing with a few extra users.

We conducted usability testing to get us to a point where we felt comfortable sharing the new navigation with a much wider audience. There’s still more research to come!

If you’re interested in getting involved with the research, then GitLab has a research panel you can join: https://about.gitlab.com/researchpanel/ or you can just drop us your feedback on: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/34917

Re: Redesigning GitLab's navigation

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Post by chj »

chj wrote: post #43

Updating...can't wait to see the new sidebar. But, gitlab team has spent quite a lot of time in UI redesign.

UPDATE: After apt-get update, now js assets are returning 404.... I should have resisted and save a few hours of googling.

Re: Redesigning GitLab's navigation

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Post by neandrake »

zebra9978 wrote: post #34

I really like the UI paradigm built by gitbucket - https://gitbucket.github.io/ . Its like they took Bitbucket and made it better. On that note - I cant believe how unusable Bitbucket is. P.S. And obviously love the fact that it is a single jar file deploy.

GitBucket's UI used to be a full rip of GitHub until they received a notice to change it [0]. They then switched over to using a UI built with AdminLTE [1]. I'm not sure if the current UI is still based on it though.

[0] http://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/gitbucket/2016/03/...

[1] http://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/gitbucket/2016/07/...

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