Why we built GitDock, our desktop app to navigate your GitLab activities

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This post introduces GitDock, a desktop application developed as a Minimum Viable Change (MVC) to explore user-centric navigation patterns for GitLab activities. It details the motivation behind GitDock, stemming from the limitations of the current project-centric navigation model and UX research findings. The post describes GitDock's features, including access to recent pipelines, viewed objects, favorite projects, recent comments, and bookmarks, as well as system notifications. It explains the decision to build GitDock as a separate product for faster iteration and testing of new ideas, acknowledging its use of shortcuts and less optimized API calls. The post also outlines the next steps, which involve using learnings from GitDock to build a better start page for GitLab.