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Dear OpenStack community,

each week we are going to highlight some interesting and important UX 
topics here on the mailing list (though I will be referencing a lot to 
the Askbot tool, which we use for discussions).

At the moment, we are asking for attention for *Horizon's navigation 
redesign*:

http://ask-openstackux.rhcloud.com/question/2/openstack-dashboard-navigation-redesign/

Some time before summit we started to invest time into navigation 
enhancements. There started horizontal proposal [0] and based on some 
feedback, we tried to provide vertical solution [1] as well. At summit 
there was super interesting discussion about interaction in both 
approaches. At the end of session, we had a voting which ended in favor 
of vertical navigation (won in ratio about 6:4). There were strong 
arguments for vertical as well as for horizontal approach.

Lately, there were some voices that voting was based on limited 
audience, so I'd like to bring this issue up here. We don't want to be 
blocked forever, choosing 'perfect' solution. We will try to deliver 
solution so that people can easily switch from vertical to horizontal 
(or vice versa) just by skinning anyway. So for the moment we want to 
find preferred way for OpenStack upstream, which we will be enhancing in 
time. What is important to take into account is to keep on mind latest 
IA [2], which is still in progress, but we have pretty good picture 
which direction we are going.

Whoever is interested in navigation topic or has some preferences one 
way or another, we are looking forward to hearing from you here or in 
the Askbot thread.

Cheers
-- Jarda

--- Jaromir Coufal (jcoufal)
--- OpenStack User Experience
--- IRC: #openstack-ux (at FreeNode)
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--- Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/UX

[0] Horizontal: 
http://people.redhat.com/~lsurette/OpenStack/Navigation%20Enhancement%20Proposal_v3.0.pdf
[1] Vertical: 
http://people.redhat.com/~jcoufal/openstack/navigation/2013-12-03_os_navigation_vertical.pdf
[2] Information Architecture: 
http://ask-openstackux.rhcloud.com/question/1/openstack-ui-information-architecture/?answer=94#post-id-94
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