[Meta] UX work for 9.0

Deliverables

• meta Revising our project navigation order #25386 (closed), real work issue at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26348 | UX @dimitrieh | FE @kushalpandya
• Update global sidebar to dropdown #26200 (closed) | FE @annabeldunstone | UX @awhildy
• Standardize the settings pages views #22210 (closed) | UX + FE @tauriedavis (Backlog)

Stretch

• WIP Animate drop downs (#26208 (closed)) - if it doesn't make it in 8.17 (Frontend MR)
• Uniquely and uniformly style status badges #25564 (closed) (Backlog)
• New interface for merge requests list search and filter #27131 (closed),
• Add token UI for filtered search bar #26652 (closed) (depending on what gets in 8.17)
• WIP Refine merge request widget https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25424#note_23180548 (9.1)

Burndown chart gitlab-ee#91 +1 😉

Thanks @rvanlaak! The burndown chart is definitely something people are excited about. Working hard to see when we can get that work to happen. 😄

Awesome, would really be a killer feature in comparison with competitors 💯

mentioned in issue #22113 (closed)

mentioned in issue #26348 (closed)

added meta label

marked the task meta Revising our project navigation order #25386 (closed), real work issue at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26348 | UX @dimitrieh | FE @kushalpandya as completed

marked the task Update global sidebar to dropdown #26200 (closed) | FE @annabeldunstone | UX @awhildy as completed

marked the task New interface for merge requests list search and filter #27131 (closed), Add token UI for filtered search bar #26652 (closed) (depending on what gets in 8.17) as completed

assigned to @tauriedavis

@awhildy burndown chart was postponed? :(

@rvanlaak Burndown charts is currently scheduled for 9.1

Thanks for the update. Would be great to get a detailed insight in the volatility of our development team so we can't wait.

marked the task WIP Add token UI for filtered search bar #26652 (closed) (depending on what gets in 8.17) as completed

closed

Check issues made it into 9.0

WIP issues will be a future release

Two issues were moved to backlog for now.

Closing issue