# Display profile header and navigation when reading messages

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-profile-header-and-navigation-when-reading-messages/37651>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [January 8, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-profile-header-and-navigation-when-reading-messages/37651 "2016-01-08T18:52:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-profile-header-and-navigation-when-reading-messages/37651/3 "2016-01-09T01:56:57Z")

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Those two ideas are good - but really at the end of the day I think people expect messages to be more like email than topics, so having the UI look more like gmail would be welcomed. Or at least provide a way to click back to the messages list from the message.

At the very least like this:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/3/e3bfece75a7f536a47fb353fe6a90b3229e1bae2.png)  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/e/2e86538219e67a31b6db500e7248d69564cd8a71.png)

Or like this:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/3/73dd533766795b571884d73c2263791a782bc84d.png)

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