# Header bar: improvements?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-bar-improvements/60930
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [April 13, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-bar-improvements/60930 "2017-04-13T14:59:48Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-bar-improvements/60930/2 "2017-04-13T16:14:34Z")

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

> [@designbygio](#):
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> - 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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/structured-notifications-tab/60497):
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> 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!) 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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/proposing-a-left-aligned-slide-out-hamburger-menu/30287/6):
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> 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: 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 …

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