nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Has anyone tried this on Portrait displays?

Dwight Holman

A good proportion of our team use split portrait and landscape (dual) monitor setups, and some use only portrait displays. They tend to be engineers who like more vertical room to scroll content, or to switch from Landscape to Portrait layouts as required.

Based on previous experience with Atlassian screen layouts, we are worried the new nav will put more pressure on the horizontal screen space. There does not seem to be any accommodation to users that prefer the top menu.

Has anyone used the new nav UI on a portrait display? What were your impressions?

The new nav is not available on our instance but we will try it when we can.

Comments

Kristian Klima_gtcuat

Hi @Dwight Holman

By profession, I'm a tech writer - so I need both the vertical space for writing AND the horizontal space to work with multiple source of information.

I want to avoid endless scrolling up/down and I also want to avoid endless window switching.

For content work, I experimented with 4K screens running at scaled 3008x1692 pixels which (127 dpi on 27 inch screens, 110 dpi on 34 inch screens).

But I ran into horizontal limits and found out that not even 3 screen setup worked (mac, 4x, HD). I even tried 5K screen (40 inch) at amazing 5120x2160 pixels but at 140 dpi, text was on the verge of readability at normal viewing distance.

After MUCH experimentation, I settled on ultrawide monitors - at home, I have a curved 5120x1440 screen, at work 3440x14440 (powered from MacBook Air M1).

So far, this combination of resolution and screen sizes proved to be a great solution that handles both vertical and horizontal requirements while keeping everything at a single horizontal level - so I can have everything at a single, most comfortable, eye level. Also, the advantage of a single seamless screen that allows me to position and resize windows without interruptions typical for mutlti monitor setups is tremendous.

I'm running Confluence at 90% scale in Chrome and 1440 vertical - for about two days that we had the new UI / new Nav nstalled, I haven't felt the need to adjust my daily habits (neither did my team members who run the identical work setup (3440x1440) with different zoom settings in Chrome for Confluence (120 and 100% I think).

Dwight Holman

Thanks - good to hear. We use Confluence, but spend more time in Jira. I expect the change to have greater impact on Jira because it has a more complex menu.

James Rickards _SN_

Whilst I have only played around with it briefly in my home lab site. The new UI seems to have been built for 4K monitors as you need more scroll space on the left navigation and more horizontal space for the new above project horizontal navigation.

It is difficult to use on 150% scaled1920x1080 15" laptop screens that are the standard at my work, and I imagine you'll suffer from the same issues the horizontal above project navigation bar when in a portrait orientation.

Rafa_qznmo3

On my vertical screen the column headers of the board are not even aligned..

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Dwight Holman

My team all use 16:10 displays which helps slightly with vertical space (in landscape), but we probably wont upgrade to 4K displays anytime soon.

Dwight Holman

Last week we spent some time exploring and found...

On Landscape displays the new horizontal Project Nav does not fit all the project items we use (but these fit in the old Project Nav - left sidebar). On a portrait display it aspect is much less usable than the old layout.
On a portrait display the new left sidebar fits more nav items content - but results in a very busy screen.
We don't think there is much impact for Confluence usability. Unfortunately my team spend far more time using Jira.

Overall we think the new nav is a step backwards. There are some changes we think are improvements, but

none relate to the new nav layout concept and could have been implemented with the original nav.
None of this justifies the degraded UI/UX.

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