Improve administration navigation

Created on 1 June 2023, almost 2 years ago

What problem are we solving?

  • 65% of sites customize the built in toolbar with contributed modules
  • Dissatisfaction in navigating between different sections, i.e. content and structure is painful with the current toolbar
  • Drupal is perceived as outdated, which the outdated Toolbar designs contribute towards

Who is this for and what will be the outcome?

  • Site builders
  • Content authors
  • Evaluators

Result: what will be the outcome?

  • Increased satisfaction with the out-of-the-box admin interface (e.g. reduced number of clicks or page visits needed to navigate through the UI)
  • Increased confidence while using the admin interface (e.g. users feel oriented while using the admin UI, i.e users know they are under the right section of the interface)
  • Improved initial impression of the administrative interface

How can we know the desired result are achieved?

  • How many users are choosing the new administration navigation over the current solutions? (Quantitative)
  • Ideally we would have a metric that ensures that the new administration navigation is perceived up-to-date/modern, but weโ€™ll still need to decide what is the specific metric.

Areas of focus

Now:

  • Modernize the look and feel of the existing navigation:
    • โ€‹โ€‹ ๐Ÿ“Œ Redesign the toolbar Active
    • Meta issue for the designs implementation (yet to be created)
  • ๐Ÿ“Œ [META] Layout redesign Active

Next:

Later:

Team and resources

We are working on the #admin-ui channel on Drupal Slack.

Current team:

  • Cristina (Provisional Frontend Framework Manager, Usability Topic maintainer) โ€“ full time until October
  • Lauri (Frontend Framework Manager) โ€“ available to support on high level direction and reviews
  • If you are planning on committing some time towards this idea, feel free to add yourself to this list! ๐Ÿค—
๐ŸŒฑ Plan
Status

Active

Component

Idea

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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธSpain ckrina Barcelona

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