Header bar: improvements?

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

There’s a lot of thoughts expressed here which would be much better communicated with some simple UX mockups

@designbygio

• notifications (why notifications are together with perosnal setting?)

We did it to reduce the number of glyphs; it’s a huge space saver on mobile. We’ve had no complaints about this after the change, and I find it to be quite intuitive:

• Search
• Navigation
• “All about me”

I do agree that the personal menu could be structured better:

Structured notifications tab

I find my notifications tab to be a bit messy. I wish it would list my notifications in order of importance. Something along the lines of: Messages Group messages Private messages Post interactions Replies Mentions Topic invite Incoming link Post edits Misc. activities Earned badge Received like It would look like this: (accidentally used an old screenshot where we hadn’t yet merged the notifications & profile tabs!) [image] The “push it off-screen” logic would have to be something li…

The same goes for the hamburger menu. I’ll need to see some mockups before I’m perfectly clear on what you’re suggesting here, but I might have pitched some similar ideas in my proposal for a left-aligned hamburger menu:

Proposing a left-aligned slide out hamburger menu

I’ve done a fresh take on this. Forget about the more radical idea of having a toggle-able, fixed-by-default sidebar on desktop. I’m refocusing my proposal on two simple things: Moving the hamburger menu to the left Cleaning up the hamburger menu This is what I’ve come up with: [image] Instead of the current hamburger’s overwhelming list of categories, we just re-use the standard category selector. A new “Most popular” section, simply based on the most active categories on the site. This …