Making room for what's next in the GitLab UI

Throughout this year, the product interface has been in a season of reduction. On the heels of dark mode , the tide has been moving out with a quieter application chrome, overall color reduction, and neutral controls. It can feel like loss, low tide always does. But low tide is also when you can see the shape of the shoreline clearly enough to build something new on it. What’s coming in is a user i