We wanted to help our users reduce the back and forth between the library and Saved Views/Dashboards: observing sample sessions, we realized users often developed routines which consisted in periodically checking on multiple Dashboards or Saved Views one after the other.
If these users could simply load the next Dashboard or a Saved View directly from the current one they are looking at, we could shave off minutes of unnecessary interactions every day.

In a previous release, we established the following UX pattern to resolve this use case for Saved Views: a new toggle in the grey sub-nav would upon click unveil a drawer allowing users to immediately search and access their Saved Views without the expense of an unnecessary trip to the Library.
You can see the announcement here: https://new.kentik.com/new-data-explorer-saved-views-drawer-2Ft2Y8

This time around, we're extending this exact concept to the Dashboard runtime. The benefits are exactly the same:

• No need to go back to the Library to select the next Dashboard to load
• The newly added Library panel contains Favorites, Recents, but also search capabilities
• The Library drawer is entirely designed to be keyboard friendly:
  
  
  • move between Favorites/Recents/Search Results tab using the keyboard arrow keys
  • scroll up and down the list of results in the drawer with the vertical arrow keys
  • upon selection, load any Dashboard with the [Return] keystroke

For visual documentation purposes, here's where the "Dasbhoard" drawer toggle button is:

... and here's how it looks once expanded, both in its compact and cosy modes

Compact Mode

Cosy Mode

What's next ? We will keep using this pattern and extend it in other parts of the product to save more of our users valuable time, stay tuned.