The new navigation: Coming to you in 2025

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Hello Community,

The Atlassian Navigation team is excited to introduce a new, modern navigation system designed for consistency, flexibility, and efficiency. In early 2025, this update will be available in Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, and Atlassian Home.

We invite you to join our Early Access Program (EAP) to learn more about the new navigation experience.

➡️ Sign up now

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What’s changing?

We’ve reimagined the navigation in Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, and Atlassian to help you stay organized, focused, and productive.

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Why are we doing this?

At Atlassian, our mission is to unleash the potential of every team and navigation (top and side bars) 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: A consistent appearance and experience across our products will reduce friction and enhance efficiency when switching between tools.

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

• Enable you to stay in the flow: Declutter your space, stay focused on essential tasks, and get to your work with fewer clicks.

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Key experience changes

Features	Details
Focus on what matters to you	Show, reorder, or hide navigation items in the sidebar to best suit your way of working.
Switch between work more efficiently	With Jira projects and queues, and Confluence spaces in the sidebar, switching between different pieces of work has never been faster.
Your most important work at your fingertips	Access items like Your work/Your Home, Recent, and Starred with just a click from the sidebar.  Your work: Find things you've interacted with and resume work. Recent: Any time you visit, edit, or create projects, issues, boards, filters, and dashboards, they’ll show up here. Starred: Items you’ve marked as the most important.
Simplified top navigation	Keeping the focus on essential tasks like search and create, we've decluttered the top navigation to give you easy access to notifications, settings, and your profile. We'll eventually add AI-powered search to this top navigation.
Maximize the focus on your work	The persistent sidebar across all pages, even when you switch between projects and products, ensures you always know your location and navigation options, enhancing contextual awareness. If the sidebar takes up too much space, you can either resize or collapse it.
An improved look and feel	Along with efficiency gains, the new navigation comes with a new look and feel. We’re in the process of redesigning tab navigation, buttons, and other parts of the product to be more visually pleasing.

Note: We’re still building the new navigation experience based on customer feedback from previous experiments and upcoming EAPs. The designs are not final.

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Join our Early Access Program (EAP)

We invite you to join our Early Access Program (EAP) If you’re interested in learning more about the new navigation experience.

This EAP is exclusively for Jira, Jira Service Management, and Jira Product Discovery users. This EAP is NOT accepting users who work with both Jira and Confluence. The post for Confluence's EAP will be coming soon.

Note that we have limited seats for EAP Alpha. There will be more opportunities to participate in the coming weeks. Stay up to date by watching this space for details.

➡️ Sign up now

➡️ Join our focus group to learn more, ask questions, or connect with the team working on the new navigation. 

We are hopeful that the new navigation will make it easier for all teams to plan, track, and collaborate in a more modern and intuitive way. Thank you for all your feedback and support!

Cheers,
The Atlassian Navigation Team

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Hi @Varsha Patel

Can you just clarify if Beta/GA is expected to be in early 2025, or is EAP starting in early 2025?

Can't seem to be 100% sure about this part:

In early 2025, this update will be available in Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, and Atlassian Home.

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Also, regarding Confluence - if the site has a Confluence product, does this mean it will automatically be declined for EAP? We would like to try new navigation on one of our test sites, but all of them have Confluence.

Cheers,
Tom

[Rune Rasmussen]

With the de-cluttering of the top navigation bar, does this mean that everything will become icons that one must memorize the meaning of, or does it mean I could drag-and-drop the things I want on MY top navigation bar?

Decluttering is all well and good, but there is so much unused white/blank space already that could have been used, and I am loathe to see more unused space in the name of "decluttering".