I keep getting projects confused

[#1]

I've been giving this new UI a good thrashing for months, and I finally figure out why I keep getting confused, and what is causing my additional cognitive load vs the old UI.

There is no difference in font size for project names vs JSM queues.

Take this view here with 3 projects (names redacted for privacy), note the project icon (red circle) is replaced with a down arrow making it look like the content below it is related to the green project above it.

When looking at this, I keep doing double takes and needing to pause for a few seconds to workout which project I have expanded, or if in a rush, clicking on the wrong project. This is not something that happened in the old UI. Am I the only one, please comment so I know it's not just me.

Can anyone at Atlassian comment as to whether they have a "bounce" measure where clicks on the nav menu are immediately followed by as second one due to mis-clicks.  I would not know how to quantitatively measure the `mental double takes` that I do. 

What I'd like to see to improve this:

- Remove the logic to overwrite the icon with a V if my mouse is over it

- Include a V or > or dot icon next to each icon to visually indicate if a project's sub menu is expanded or not, similar to how pages are shown in Confluence, and thus make the UI more consistent between the two products.

- Increase the font size or weight for project names vs sub menu like the "views" queue group.

[Annegret Bernhardt]

@James Rickards _SN_you are not the only one ;)

[Anne Saunders]

Amen and seconded (thirded, I guess?)

[Aditi Dalal]

Hey @James Rickards _SN_ thank you so much for raising this in such detail. Your feedback is super clear and we hear you - restyling the sections to make them a bit more visually distinct is something we're looking at. 

At this stage, we're not measuring bounces/double-clicks, but that's definitely an interesting idea as well. 

I've passed this back to my team - thanks again for sharing 😊

[Katrina Meyers]

Yes, I agree!