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by kushalpandya
2886 days ago
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Hi, Thanks for your feedback around content width. Making GitLab accessible on all screen sizes is important to us given that there are many users out there using HD (720p) screens primarily. Our design indeed has fixed width portrait container enclosing the page body (with maximum size being 1200px) so here's how it looks on a large monitor at 100% zoom: https://i.imgur.com/lTqL6X8.png Hence if the browser viewport width goes below 1200px, page body ends up taking full width. Although this screen resolution being still widely used, I've opened an issue to discuss this further here https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/49488 Feel free to add more details to the issue. |
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So, hi kushalpandya, jmiserez and svesselov (For some reason I cannot reply your comment)
Looks like you guys didn't understand what I just said: The problem is the UX design is NOT very good. I think you guys should re-think about how user will interact with your interface.
For example (since I discovered the 'fluid' setting): Even if a user have a super wide monitor, when the user turn on the fluid setting and maximized the browser, should they saw an interface like this: https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/324e117... ?
Also, from my point of view, 1200px is still too wide for that list. If you take look the version that I've modified, you will notice it's only about 400px wide, and with that width, I can scan every results on the page without moving my eyes too much.
The magic thing is, with 400px, YOU can also scan every results on the page without moving YOUR eyes too much, even your monitor is wider than mine. And THIS, my friend, is the so called compatibility. The goal here, is to provide the same level of user experience -- GOOD user experience, NOT to fill the whole width so the page look like the same in every resolutions.
Again, the key point here is NOT about just the width of the page, it's not a problem between 400px and 1200px and 100%, it's about how you guys think how users will feel about the UI -- Will user feel tired when using it? Can the UI effectively helping user to get what they want? etc.
If you have no idea, go checkout some list designs on https://dribbble.com/ (By the way, dribbble.com itself is very well designed, go learn from it)
Don't worry though, I'll keep using your product and patiently waiting for improvement :)