A redesigned 'Manage Jenkins' experience - let me know your thoughts!

[janfaracik]

Hey folks.

I’ve been working away on an improved Manage Jenkins experience and I’d love to get your thoughts.

What’s changed?

• New sidebar and design for easy switching between settings

• Alerts now show on the ‘System’ page

• Added settings-subpage - reusable frame for Manage Jenkins pages

• Page contents are deferred, meaning that swapping from page to page is near instant

This is currently behind a feature flag, whilst the rest of core and plugins are updated to align with the design.

PR is here https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/11222 - and UX Sig issue is here Use a side panel in Manage Jenkins · Issue #10 · jenkinsci/sig-ux · GitHub.

I’d love to hear your thoughts, its still rather early/lacks polish.

All the best,

Jan

[Vilius (Vilius Šumskas)]

How parent “Manage Jenkins” page looks like? Or will it go straight into System?

[janfaracik]

It goes straight to System.

[Vilius (Vilius Šumskas)]

IMHO, having parent page with large icons and short descriptions is better experience for novice users.

Also, one could argue that having a parent page shows all options at glance. Having left menu as a starting point would probably cut off some options on smaller screens.

[Bananeweizen (Michael Keppler)]

While I generally like the new manage jenkins sidebar, the spacing seems bad to me. This screenshot is from a 4K monitor, showing a lot of wasted space.