[Feedback wanted] Improve navigation for logged in users - UI for package maintainers

[nlhkabu]

I have put together an interactive prototype as a proposal for how we could improve the information architecture for logged in users (package maintainers)

• This is best viewed on desktop - not tested/customised for mobile
• Note that only three of the projects in the prototype have pages you can navigate to - the others have disabled buttons/links and are present for display purposes only

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/384dacac-cf95-44aa-ad82-18f33f7cb2f1

Requirements:

• Support users with thousands of projects (the PyPI user with highest number of projects has 17,183 projects!)
• Support users with up to 10 organisations (the PyPI user with highest number of orgs has 7 orgs)

Summary of changes:

• Add horizontal menu for "top level" navigation (projects, organizations, account settings)
• Split account settings into separate pages
• Add search, filtering and pagination to project lists
• Add "quick switch" selects in the sidebar to allow users to quickly switch between organisations and projects
• Move "Publishing" out of the top level menu and under "account settings"

Help wanted:

• Please review the prototype and comment here
  • What works?
  • What doesn't work?
  • Are there any usability issues you can see?

Thanks!!

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[di]

This looks fantastic!

What works?

I really like the horizontal navigation, ordering options and pagination. I also like the "quick switch" in the sidebar (but I'm a little concerned how far this will scale to a large number of projects/orgs).

Are there any usability issues you can see?

I think the blending of user-owned projects and org-owned projects on the "Your projects" page is bound to be confusing, especially given the current issues listed in #18102. Specifically: what determines if an organization-owned project shows up in this list? If the user has a role on the project? In the org? Which roles?

Given that there's another way to see "all the projects in the org" on the "your orgs"-> -> "Projects" page, I think I would suggest making these two things mutually exclusive:

• "Your projects" = all projects you are involved in that aren't in any org
• "your orgs"-> -> "Projects" = all projects in a given org

[nlhkabu]

Thanks for this feedback @di

I hadn't realised the complexity with the ownership model.

I've update the prototype to only list the projects that the user owns.

I've added a sidebar to this page, which links to org/projects pages - which I think is a good compromise for ensuring that all projects a user can access can be found from this page.

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/fa7fee99-3af3-45f2-8b0e-20a1ad2b3789

Thoughts?

[di]

Makes sense to me! Again, concerned with how we'd handle a large number of organizations but I think most users should have a relatively low number here.