Wordpress-android: Gravatar vs Icon in the Me Section menu.

[develric]

As part of the Information Architecture project we are moving the access of the Me section from Bottom Navigation bar to a menu in My Site section (see #10495).

A dedicated PR has been created for this (see #10498). Note that in this PR we used the "ic_user_circle_white_24dp" icon for the My site section menu.

This issue has been created as a reminder to track eventual further discussion about the convenience or not to use the user Gravatar instead of the "ic_user_circle_white_24dp" icon in the menu.

cc @planarvoid and @osullivanchris .

[designsimply]

I found this change very disorienting while beta testing and thought it was a bug. 🙂

I'm not opposed but may I ask for the reasoning behind this to be noted here in GitHub so that the decision is publicly accessible?

[planarvoid]

I'll try to explain what's happening. We're trying to change the architecture of the app to increase the usability. One of the steps is to reduce the number of actions in the bottom navigation. The first step of this is to move the Me tab to a separate screen which can be accessed from the toolbar of the My sites tab.
This change is now merged to develop but it's behind a feature flag for release because by itself it has issues (for example the bottom navigation toolbar now looks lopsided). Once we finish the other parts of the project, we'll release all the changes to the public at once.

The feature was developed in this PR https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/issues/10495 and it was fully disabled (for all the variants) in this PR https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/issues/10591

[develric]

Hi @planarvoid, thanks for answering above 🙇‍♂️.

Hi @designsimply, hope the Issues/PR linked by planarvoid can also help with the context 😊.

[osullivanchris]

Thanks for explaining @planarvoid @develric

Once we get the other top level nav changes lined up it will be visually more balanced. And from an iA perspective the aim is to create a clearer hierarchy of tasks for the users, rather than making them choose from too many things at the top level.