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RE: 👨🏻💻 Condenser: Introduction of Navigation into Feeds Screen
This seems to be a retro design, can we introduce a thematic approach? Let the user select up and down or keep the left and right menus?
The left and right forms are more in line with the usage habits of x users
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By "thematic approach", do you mean allow the user to decide whether the navigation is at the top or on the left?
The left and right forms are also used on Facebook although they have their primary navigation across the top... The left sidebar is then used for secondary navigation (it's customary for navigation to be either top or left) and then the right panel is generally used for additional context (less frequently used for navigation but can be).
I opted for the primary navigation to go across the top because it makes it consistent with the Profile page - if we move it to the left panel (like your dApp), then I'd also need to reimplement this on the Profile page too. That'd then create a challenge with mobile users where if the left menu becomes collapsible, it'll be competing with the burger menu in the top right. Which would lead me to thinking that mobile users would want an "app style" tabs across the bottom.
Once I've completed this version of the navigation (I'd also like to follow Facebook's lead and introduce icons (my MSc dissertation concluded that icons improve the usability of computer systems)), then I'd like to produce some ideas and mock-ups of what the left and right sidebars could be used for with contextual relevance. At that point, they could become collapsible but with the primary navigation still available, these could be hidden from mobile users (like they currently are) without the user having difficulties introduced.
Hopefully my thoughts make sense!