At the heart of this update is a new, truly global navigation. Joining the new menu are a host of new design refreshes and usability improvements.

Visual refresh

We’ve given Uniform a modest refresh: making panels softer, normalizing drop shadows, and adjusting fonts. In addition to accommodating the global navigation changes, this also helps increase the visual cohesion between the Canvas editor and other areas of the application while modernizing our overall application feel.

Global Navigation

The Canvas editor is central to building experiences and managing content in Uniform. With this release, it is now visually integrated with the rest of Uniform. In the new global navigation, you’ll always be able to tell which project you’re working in and have quick access to anywhere or anything else.

In the main menu, we’ve highlighted the three core objects marketers work with daily: entries, compositions, and assets. Compositions and project map go hand-in-hand, so you’ll find them both under “Compositions” and we’ll save the view you used last, so you always return to compositions in the same view.

Speaking of accessing compositions, the “open” button inside the Canvas editor has become more prominent in the global navigation. If you haven’t tried this feature yet, it lets you, for example, jump from one composition to another.

We’ve seen many of our users — especially during the architecture phase of a project — needing to constantly switch between a small handful of different items leading to lots of clicking between lists or trying to maintain open tabs. Now, a list of your recently opened items are available from anywhere via the “Recently viewed” menu next to your avatar.

Sidebar filters

For many listings, such as compositions and entries, the sidebar contains links to one-click apply common filters. Quickly filter by publish status on the composition listing, content type on the entry listing, category on components, and so much more.

Project map editing

You can now edit project map nodes directly in Canvas now! Clicking on the project map node chip allows you to edit the node or move it within the project map. At the same time, we’ve made it a little more difficult to accidentally change which node the composition is attached to.

This is one more step in helping you keep a composition open while being able to edit other, related, items; we’ve got exciting updates coming on that front, stay tuned!