We didn't just "redesign" the sidebar. We revamped the logic. Here is the four-step framework we used:
Beyond the Hamburger Menu: Why a Sidebar Revamp Boosts UX and Conversion Slug: sidebar-revamp-ux-strategy Reading Time: 4 minutes sidebar.revamp
We wrote three lines of localStorage logic. Now, the sidebar remembers: We didn't just "redesign" the sidebar
This was the game-changer. In the old design, if you collapsed the sidebar, it re-opened collapsed on every new page load. Maddening. if you collapsed the sidebar
The default view went from 18 items to 7. Suddenly, the sidebar didn't require scrolling.