We spotted a new NEW navigation side bar (on Enterprise) recently which got us excited so we thought we’d share what we found, assuming you can see it!
In the previous new navigation side bar, you can switch between Work, Strategy, Workflow and People. In the new NEW navigation side bar, some labels have changed and new options have been added - Work, Agents (previously Workflow), Strategy, Knowledge (new), People.
Here’s the evolution of the navigation side bar to-date. Let me know what you think!
Old navigation
Oldies of Asana will be familiar with the this UI.
This version had been undergoing A/B testing and was released to Enterprise/Enterprise+ and is being rolled out to other tiers. Read more in this thread: New Navigation Now Available for Enterprise+
Looks like a promising direction. Renaming Workflow to Agents makes the AI features clearer, and the new Knowledge section feels like a natural home for Pages and Meetings. I’m especially curious to see how Meetings integrates with tasks and AI summaries once it’s fully released. Thanks for sharing the preview!
I do not like it. I have no need to use it. Everything I need is in the original navigation pane and now I have something in the way. I know I can stretch the other navigation pane, but that shrinks the workspace for my tasks and boards and that space is already at a premium. How do we turn it off or hide it?
Kind of with you on that. It’s nice to see automations and templates in a list in one place. Maybe that was there it was just hidden or hard to get to? Overall, I dont see myself using it that much.
I really liked the “Workflow” tab better than “Agents.” My company does not use the AI teammates add-on, so when I think of checking out my automations or custom fields library, “Workflow” makes more sense. Also, having bundles hidden under the “More” layer just adds more clicks to my experience. Is there an option to go back to the Workflow view instead?
Absolutely this! Some individual contributors won’t really have use for the strategy/workflow/people buttons. Mine is on the “work” setting 100% of the time. It’s taking up more space in my window.
I see that my starred forms now live in the work section and not the starred section, which completely defeats the purpose of starring them in the first place. It’s also just confusing
My biggest issue with the new navigation, which I hope can be fixed in the future, is splitting up the ‘starred’. For me, because I have soo much in Asana, I used starred to organize everything that I needed quick access to in one succinct place. Now those items are split up between all 5 modes, which is highly inconvenient and inefficient (and defeats the purpose of bookmarking anything to begin with). If the ‘starred’ could become its own mode altogether, or allow for this to be customized (like maybe a ‘MyMode’ mode?? ), that would solve this.
Thanks for this post! My organization is on the Advanced plan, and it rolled out to us (or at least, to me) earlier this week. I was searching to see if there was new information on it to help guide the rest of my team. To that end, thought I’d ask here: Is A/B testing done at the domain/org-level, or is it always on a user-by-user level? It’s tricky to know how or when to provide support to others on my team without knowing if the rollout has occurred for all of us, some of us, or just me.
), that would solve this.