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Global Styles Sidebar: Clean up button spacing and semantics #40533

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Part of #38934
Stacked on #40526

🚧 Status: Requesting design feedback (Later I'll be splitting this PR for easier code review)

What?

Cleans up spacing and semantic issues with navigator buttons in the Global Styles Sidebar.

Why?

To refine the visual consistency of the Global Styles sidebar.

How?

  • Tightened the main button spacing overall by optimizing the component tree structure.
  • Removed the horizontal inset padding on the description for the "Blocks" button. This ad hoc inset is not congruous with the rest of screens in this sidebar. (Let me know if you want it anyway. It's not a scalable pattern so we'll either have to do it very ad hoc, or redesign it so the description is actually inside the button. I'd rather not simply revert it to the original state, because it was implemented in a hacky and unsemantic way.)
  • Reworked the Back button in the header so it's semantically correct, and is visually coherent with the rest of the component system.
  • [Code Quality] Renamed the NavigationButton abstraction to NavigationButtonAsItem so it's clearer that it's an Item, and thus needs ItemGroup parent.

Testing Instructions

  1. npm run dev
  2. See navigator screens in the Global Styles sidebar.

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Main screen

Updated to reflect final tweaks.

Before After
Root screen before Root screen after with tighter spacingMain screen with Browse styles button

Header

Before After
Header with incongruous back button outline Header with harmonious back button

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Header with description paragraph

@mirka mirka added Needs Design Feedback Needs general design feedback. Global Styles Anything related to the broader Global Styles efforts, including Styles Engine and theme.json [Package] Edit Site /packages/edit-site labels Apr 22, 2022
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mirka commented Apr 22, 2022

@jasmussen I'd love to get your design feedback here 🙏

Also if you or @critterverse already have a decision on #40478, we could probably work that into this PR stack too!

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Nice one, seems like a good improvement overall. Trunk looks like this:

before

This PR makes it look much more considered in the spacing between buttons and separators:
after

One small thing — the descriptive text for "Blocks" lines up better in trunk. There, it shares left margin with the button:
Screenshot 2022-04-22 at 08 15 26

In this PR the description goes closer to the edge:
Screenshot 2022-04-22 at 08 15 34

Looking back to #38934, it seems this PR brings us very close, and mainly that paragraph that stands out. Nice work!

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mirka commented Apr 22, 2022

Thanks for the quick review @jasmussen!

One small thing — the descriptive text for "Blocks" lines up better in trunk. There, it shares left margin with the button:

Highlighting this note in my OP in case it was skimmed over:

Removed the horizontal inset padding on the description for the "Blocks" button. This ad hoc inset is not congruous with the rest of screens in this sidebar. (Let me know if you want it anyway. It's not a scalable pattern so we'll either have to do it very ad hoc, or redesign it so the description is actually inside the button. I'd rather not simply revert it to the original state, because it was implemented in a hacky and unsemantic way.)

With that in mind, should we just go with an ad hoc approach here? I'm hesitant to turn this into a legitimate pattern unless we have a clear design guideline (e.g. inset all adjacent descriptions and headings when an ItemGroup is borderless).

To be scalable, I think it should be visually and semantically clear which node the description is associated with — is it describing the entire ItemGroup, or the individual Item?

Blocks button with description

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Sorry I missed that. I think we should be ad-hoc here, but leave a comment in the CSS calling out the incongruety. That way, when we come in to revisit, we'll know that it's safe to remove.

In general I share the desire to avoid hacks and bespoke CSS like this, it's not good form. In this case, however, we know that it will be revisited, and in the not too distant future as well. #40478 might remove the descriptive text entirely, and the separate explorations in #36667 (comment) recast Global Styles in a dark context where the paddings will need a new approach regardless.

What do you think?

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mirka commented Apr 22, 2022

Yep, that sounds perfectly reasonable to me 👍 Thanks for the thoughtful replies, as always. I'll whip up something to recreate the inset.

@mirka mirka added [Status] In Progress Tracking issues with work in progress and removed Needs Design Feedback Needs general design feedback. labels Apr 22, 2022
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mirka commented Apr 25, 2022

This PR was split into #40588 #40590 #40592

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