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

Contributing UX SIG
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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.

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PR is here Add experimental Manage Jenkins layout by janfaracik · Pull Request #11222 · jenkinsci/jenkins · GitHub - 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

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

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It goes straight to System.

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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.