Rethinking CollabPress menus

[ericandrewlewis]

The CollabPress menus offer a confusing user interface. The home screen that we call "Dashboard" is a list of all Projects a user has access to. The menu in this non-project-specific context also offers links to a Calendar detailing all tasks across projects, as well as a link to Activity across all projects.

When with a specific project's context, we are given links specific to the project (Overview, Calendar, Tasks, Files, Users), along with a link back to the Dashboard.

I'm sure there's some design decisions we could make here to make this menu feel more intuitive.

[ruudvh]

We recently switched back to Collabpress. But in the past, we implemented DataTable which created a nice sortable, and searchable, table. This, in our opinion, added to the user experience by providing an easy interface to search through your projects - especially the live search function.

This was only used for the 'front-page' where there is an overview of all the projects.