Update from UX 

Advancing the Community Solution: Navigation Design and Page Integration

As we continue to evolve the platformOS Community Solution, our current focus has moved from strategic discovery into early design activities—specifically, UX wireframing for core navigational structures and internal page layouts.

Strategic Focus: Market-Aligned Navigation and Structural Cohesion

Building on the insights gathered during the Discovery Phase, we’ve begun designing a new navigation system. Grounded in industry best practices and our proto-persona research, this navigation framework is intended to support intuitive user journeys across diverse community environments.

At this stage, we are exploring how the new navigation model will function within various internal page types. Through detailed wireframes, we are analyzing how existing layouts, grids, and content structures will need to adapt to create a unified, user-centered experience.

Key Design Areas: Course and Group Modules

This iteration has concentrated on two foundational areas of community interaction:

• Course Module Pages: Wireframes are being created to reflect improved layout logic, clearer access to learning paths, and better alignment with the upcoming navigation system.

• Group Pages: We are mapping out structural and UX adjustments to support better user engagement, discoverability, and modular integration.
  
  

Looking Ahead: Dashboard Exploration for Logged-In Users

We’ve also begun wireframing one of the most complex upcoming features—the personalized user Dashboard. This future-facing design introduces new components, layout strategies, and visual direction. The goal is to deliver a modular, dynamic hub tailored to each user’s activities, preferences, and community participation.

These wireframing efforts lay the groundwork for the (later) UI design phase, where visual styling and component detailing will bring these structures to life—readying the platform for future development while maintaining strong alignment with our research and strategic objectives.

UI Design Update – Community Solution & Accessibility

We are thrilled to share that following the UX team’s wireframing work on the Community Solution, we’ve begun laying the groundwork for the upcoming UI design phase.

From a UI perspective we would like to highlight the following:

• We collaborated on defining the grid and layout structure for various areas of the solution, such as the public pages and the logged-in views, which will include a sidebar and a more space-efficient layout.

• We established the foundation for responsive UI across different devices (desktop, tablet, and mobile), and ideated how navigation and content would adapt. We also created a variable system to allow spacing and structure to adjust automatically based on screen width.

• We defined new components to support the enhanced navigation structure.

Additionally, we have contributed to our accessibility initiatives, publishing two free community templates related to accessibility. You can find more details about that here.

Docs as Code Fundamentals course

We’ve added a new lesson to Module 2 of our Docs as Code Fundamentals course:

• Lesson 3: Style Guide: Learn why style guides are essential for clarity, consistency, accessibility, and user trust. This lesson walks through common style guide sections, how to build on established guides, and how to define standards for writing, formatting, topic types, and accessibility.

Stay tuned for our upcoming Q&A webinar and Module 3 – Lesson 1: Docs as Code review process!

Development 

To learn more about the most recent updates, enhancements and fixes in platformOS, check out our latest release note: platformOS Release Note 14 March, 2023 — array_delete_at and array_delete filters, fixes and improvements

platformOS Release Note 17 May, 2025 — GraphQL queries/mutations improvements

NEW

• Allow setting manually_managed flag for assets from GraphQL mutations

• admin_user_schema query returns the schema of the user defined in app/user.yml

FIXED

• fix edge case scenario of asset_url not appending updated_at query param

IMPROVED

• records_update_all mutation can be used to quickly move records from one table to another

• records_create_rc accepts id argument for record input to create a record with a specific ID

platformOS Release Note 14 Apr, 2025 — gzip_compress/gzip_decompress filters, fixes for user profiles filtering, consistency improvements for record_delete mutation, data_export_delete mutation

NEW

• gzip_compress/gzip_decompress filters

• data_export_delete mutation

FIXED

• Fixes for user profiles filtering

IMPROVED

• Consistency improvements for record_delete mutation

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