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Comment by richbell | Hacker News Reader

In general it seems like they removed information and made the UI more dense. While the "before" pipeline header did have a lot of wasted space, the "after" makes it harder to visually differentiate things, imo.

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Agreed, I hate when UX is ruined just for the sake of design. It blows my mind how these decisions are made. I mean, Gitlab has to have a product team, right? They must not be technical or have experience using the product. Either that or they need to find a new UX researcher to conduct better user interviews earlier in the development process.

This, to me, seems like an example of a larger trend... GitHub is guilty too

Designers aiming to impress their peers over basic UX principles. They all need to go back and (re)read "Don't Make Me Think"

That's just how it is these days, designers that don't use the product making decisions for those that do.

The whole blog post is written as though a major engineering effort has taken place, which a) might have happened, but that would be odd from what is shown in the screenshots, or b) hasn't happened, but is the sort of major transformational change that UX consultancies churn 'em out to speak about. And, as you say, almost all of seem almost entirely focused on UI design.

GitLab team member here. Thanks for your feedback.

I have copied it into the feedback issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/414756#note_14... (also linked in the blog post). Feel free to add more details and thoughts. Thanks!

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