Most of my navigation related issues can be summed up into 3 problems.

  1.  Not having a secondary level of navigation in the left-nav really 
restricts the level of granularity that can be achieved through the navigation. 
Having an accordion-like nav structure would help this as well as setting a 
corresponding url convention like we have for the current nav (I.e. The url 
should be "dashboard/primary_nav/secondary_nav")
  2.  Which leads to my second issue, having a robust breadcrumb system so it 
is easy for the user to backtrack to previous pages would really help the user 
from getting lost in drill downs. A strong url convention would make this 
fairly easy to implement.
  3.  The fixed width of the left nav makes it awkward to have more than 3 
dashboards. Instead of the current tab-like structure for adding dashboard we 
could switch to a drop down.

Thanks for working on this Jarda!

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From: Jaromir Coufal <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: OpenStack Development Mailing List 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 7:37 AM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List 
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Subject: [openstack-dev] [Horizon] Navigation UX Enhancements - Collecting 
Issues

Hi everybody,

in UX community group on G+ popped out a need for enhancing user experience of 
main navigation, because there are spreading out various issues .

There is already created a BP for this: 
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/navigation-enhancement

Toshi had great idea to start discussion about navigation issues on mailing 
list.

So I'd like to ask all of you, if you have some issues with navigation, what 
are the issues you are dealing with? I'd like to gather as much feedback as 
possible, so we can design the best solution which covers most of the cases. 
Issues will be listed in BP and I will try to come out with design proposals 
which hopefully will help all of you.

Examples are following:
* Navigation is not scaling for more dashboards (Project, Admin, ...)
* Each dashboard might contain different hierarchy (number of levels)

What problems do you experience with navigation?

Thanks all for contributing
-- Jarda

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