On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 4:32 PM Griselda Cuevas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ahmet, adding response inline.
>
> A question about the content. Design adds items for use cases, do we have
>> existing content that fits into that template?
>>
> Yes, the content will be curated from the use cases we got presented at
> Beam Summits. We are tracking who has given permission to do this in Jira:
> BEAM-11225 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-11225> [1]
>

Nice!


>
> Re: left navigation on the docs page. The fonts here are more readable to
>> me and the search feature is great. One question, the current version has
>> hierarchical and collapsible items on the left navigation. Would that still
>> be possible. IMO visual grouping, and hiding detailed items makes the
>> documentation easier to navigate.
>>
>
> This is the point we would like to hear feedback on, the proposal is to
> remove the full detail in the left navigation and leave the hierarchy view
> on the right navigation, which appears on the right when you click on a
> topic. Doing this will allow us to keep the left navigation organized and
> focused on the high level topics, hoping to make the experience smoother
> and neater for people and do not overwhelm them with so many
> topics/subtopics.
>

Got it. Having a simplified left nav, and a more detailed right nav make
sense to me.

My _very personal opinion_ is that the left nav is useful, and the right
nav is usually cluttered and has duplicate information. For example in this
page (
https://beam.apache.org/documentation/transforms/python/overview/#element-wise),
left nav has richer and collapsible information. Right nav has partial
information. Somewhat of an opposite example in this page (
https://beam.apache.org/documentation/programming-guide/#triggers). I
wonder if we can have a single nav menu in a more elegant way?


>
> For context, experienced UX and UI designers are proposing these changes
> and have optimized for a better discovery and troubleshooting experience,
> hence the recommendation.
>
> [1]
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-11225?jql=project%20%3D%20BEAM%20AND%20text%20~%20%22permission%20use%20cases%22
>
>>

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