

“You’re only there for 1 reason: to find the answer to your question.” “When I come here I’m on a mission I don’t care about the rest.” Digging deeper, we discovered that many weren’t really seeing the top bar at all – a “mental block” so effective that most users also couldn’t identify what the icons meant. A Common ThemeĪ pattern surfaced when talking to users: even with the addition of Jobs and Documentation to the navigation, many developers weren’t aware of the change. As both product and process expanded, it quickly became apparent that Stack Overflow had outgrown some of our previous design decisions.

There’s a ton you can learn by watching people try to use a feature - things that don’t get uncovered when directly soliciting feedback. And we added Developer Story to help developers ditch the outdated resume format.ĭuring this time, we also evolved our product development process to include more user research, allowing us to validate ideas earlier and surface more users’ voices. We added a whole new content type - Documentation - to help you find even more solutions to your programming questions. In the past year, we fully integrated our by-developers, for-developers Jobs product.

#Hamburger stack menu bootstrap update#
We launched this update today as part of a series of changes supporting our core mission: Make developers’ lives better. You may have noticed that we’re sporting a new look today.
