Howdy, @scotbaston!
Thanks for the feedback here. You are correct in that the navigation for moving through the Element’s controls is no longer present along with the breadcrumbs in this release. With the general imperative of wanting to surface multi-document editing and making that a chief priority, we had many discussion on how to handle the reshuffle of things as that was going to take up such a critical space.
Ultimately, the breadcrumbs and toolbar ended up being combined as they are ultimately more “global” features in terms of the page building experience, and the “control navigation” ended up going in the Workspace header below the Element title as it is contextual to the Element itself. The main benefit here is that you clearly see the tabs up top with the controls for that Element, and they are always affixed to the top of the Workspace as you scroll, making moving between groups very easy.
The layer of navigation that is lost in this process is the “sub control navigation” for things like “Design” or “Typography” underneath the main grouping of “Primary” for an Element due to that space in the Workspace header being more condensed.
We know it is a slight workflow change, but for longer Elements under the “Primary” control grouping, when needing to make big movements the best thing is probably to CMD / CTRL + click a heading like “Setup” or “Size” to collapse everything at once, and then reveal the section you need.
If having back in the “sub control navigation” is of great importance to quickly jump to a section of an Element, one potential option I’m just thinking of off the top of my head is something like this:
Imagine that the currently selected tab displayed a caret to one side, and either clicking / hovering over this would reveal a dropdown with a way to quickly jump to that section. That’s one of the few ways I can think of how to get that functionality back in to that space, as the Element navigation will most likely remain in this position due to all of the other shuffling that had to happen to make multi-document editing work.
As for the Duplicate and Delete actions, I agree that on the left they at least need a divider between the “Delete” action and breadcrumbs. That is an oversight on my part. Another potential variation here, what do you think of this…
I could see moving those up into the Workspace header as options on the meta line. That way they are always available as you scroll through the Workspace and are placed in a more isolated spot.
Thank you and I look forward to your thoughts!
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