Thanks to everyone for chipping in!
Here’s my summary and action items:
- There are two (largely mutually exclusive) mental models of panel navigation.
- Fibery currently leans towards the model that places more value on preserving context when browsing.
- We are not looking to overhaul the navigational model any time soon as we are focusing on other things and don’t have enough evidence to justify the effort.
- There are cases like
aBB → aBC → AB
that are annoying no matter the model. We’ll try to fix those and see if the number of complaints goes down significantly.