gitlabhq/gitlabhq — Issue #467: Project Page - Design
Author: dubcanada
Created: 2012-02-25 04:48:17+00:00
State: open

Hey Guys,

I offered to take a look at GitLabHQ's design, anyways I wanted to get community feedback before I purposed anything. I am going to go through the design high level page by high level page and get a sense of usability and functionality aspects we would like present.

Anyways enough with the rambling, onto the important parts.

Current Thoughts
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* This is the first page after logging in, it should give a quick oversight on all important news, a quick list of projects that can be quickly accessed.
* There is currently a menu with 4 items (one of those being home). This seems a bit confusing, these options should be displayed in the main body (or on the right) to get rid of the menu.
* Most of these sub pages seem to contain very little content in retrospect to the rest of the site (merge requests, for example will not contain very much. Even this project has only 5 merge requests).
* The projects are in a card format with Browser Code, Commits and Git Url. This seems to take up a very large amount of space with little information.
* There is a recent projects menu on the right, which lists the exact same stuff (with 5 projects, of course more this may be useful). And a projects menu, which pretty much refreshes the page. This seems a bit useless.
* If you have a ton of projects, this page tends to get long and very quickly. Projects become near impossible to find (the search seems to be a bit weird, but that's another story).

I'd like to know what your guys thoughts on this page are. I'm going to start working on some framing aspects for this page to direct gitlab away from using bootstrap and into a more sleek style. One where people who see it will know it's gitlab.