GUI Navigation discussion

[Jandra A]

Kathy -- Following up on our conversation,

>> I think a grey could work as the nav background, not sure about it being
the content background. But, interestingly, yesterday I was thinking about
using greys in another way – that if we had a set of greys throughout the
site, and then used one or two colors as a filter, it might be easy to have
groundwork for a skin through a method of that sort. Basically the base
theme is shades of grey, and then two variables may be able to be used to
establish the color themes.

I'm not following the idea of using a set of greys and one or two colors as
a filter. Would that not be the same amount of work for creating themes as
if they were full themes?


>> I can see what I can do with this idea; and in the meantime if you come
up with a color palette keeping with the idea of the nav being the dark
background (so we can continue with this commit without substantial
changes), let me know.

I'm attaching another proposal using the exact same color conventions in
the build right now, so that we can focus on merging the accordion
navigation behavior and keep the color discussion separate. This would keep
the background dark blue (blue 100) with white text and icons (grey 0). The
selected page would be styled with a grey 20 background and blue 100 text.
The hover page would be styled with a grey 0 background and blue 100 text.
And, all children in the navigation are grey 60.



>> Regarding the design library, we have been reviewing Carbon and don’t
feel like it matches with the modern style that we’d like to move forward
with very well. We do like the idea of a design library, but if we don’t
agree on which design library, this might not help so much after all…
About the design library, whether it's Carbon or not, we're going to have
to align on something otherwise subjective conversations will keep slowing
all parties down. In a separate email I'll address this more.


Regards,
Jandra
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