Atlassian’s new navigation is now available in Beta!

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Hi everyone,

The Atlassian Navigation team has been relentlessly working to deliver a new, modern navigation system that will enhance consistency, flexibility, and efficiency.

Following the success of our Early Access Program (EAP) in October 2024, we’re now extending an open invite to all users for our Beta launch.

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What is the new navigation?

At Atlassian, our mission is to unleash the potential of every team, and navigation (top and side) in our products is central to how teams find and move work forward. We’ve heard that the existing navigation can sometimes feel inconsistent, rigid, and cumbersome, and used this feedback to build a new navigation.

The new navigation hopes to:

• Deliver a unified look and feel: Enjoy a seamless and consistent experience across Atlassian products, reducing friction and boosting efficiency as you effortlessly switch between them.

• Empower you to customize your workspace: Personalize our products to fit your unique way of working and individual preferences.

• Enable you to stay in the flow: Declutter your space, focus on what matters, and get to your work with fewer clicks.

• Uplift the experience with a new look and feel: Atlassian’s updated visuals—featuring new color scales, iconography, and typography—offer a fresh, modern experience while enhancing readability, accessibility, and scalability.

What is the Beta launch?

After weeks of rigorously testing functionality and feature parity internally and with a closed Early Access Program (EAP), we’ve validated key assumptions, gathered feedback, and learnt from the cohort.

We’re thrilled to invite you to our Beta launch, where you can test Atlassian’s new navigation, validate the experience, and provide feedback that will shape what we launch for all customers.

Note: The new navigation's Beta launch will soon be available for Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Jira Service Management, and Atlassian Home. Confluence navigation will be available later this year. When you sign up, you can let us know if you want to experience the new navigation in all the products.

Join our Beta launch

Are you an admin?

As the new navigation is enabled at the site level, all users on the site URL will have it enabled by default. Don’t worry—you and your users can turn on/off the new navigation at any time, and it won’t affect other users.

So we’re looking for admins to sign up to enable the new navigation at the site level.

And yes, you can use the new navigation in testing and Sandbox environments.

Sign up now

If you’re not an admin, and you’re interested in participating in this Beta launch, you can:

• Reach out to your admins

• Sign up now and leave your admin’s details

In the meantime, join our focus group to ask questions, raise concerns, and connect with the team working on the new navigation.

Note: If you’re part of the EAP we launched in October 2024, the new navigation will still be enabled on your site so you and your users can continue using it.

What we're looking for?

During the Beta launch, our goal is to collect feedback from users and learn from you and your team.

Share with us:

• Bugs, issues, and improvements in the new navigation

• Any tasks you found challenging to complete using the new navigation

• What’s working well for you

• What’s not working well for you

• Any other comments or suggestions, no matter how minor

Join our AMA

In the meantime, join me for an AMA session to stay informed about key experience changes, learn about the Beta launch, and get your questions answered live in preparation for general availability, expected in early 2025.

 RSVP here

Cheers,
The Atlassian Navigation Team

[Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_]

Great news @Kristin Perchal !

Although regarding this:

As the new navigation is enabled at the site level, all users on the site URL will have it enabled by default.

Personally, I would rather like to see this disabled by default and then we can inform specific users to enable the new navigation in their personal settings.
If this is rolled out to everyone, then we need to inform a lot of users to (potentially) turn it off, rather than just informing a couple to turn it on and test it out.

[Harrison Ponce]

Agree with @Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_ !

[Henri Seymour _Easy Agile_]

Hi Kristin, 

What's the timeline for this beta program? This post mentions it's coming "soon" to Jira. 

I understand admins can sign up now; will they get the beta shortly after signing up, or will it be released in the next couple of weeks? 

Kind regards, 
Henri, Support Engineer @ Easy Agile