Algolia
Product DesignerComplexAug 6, 2026

Unify agent navigation before workspace migration

A unified workspace can reduce wandering while making important boundaries easier to miss.

Teams often need a simpler path for everyday work without weakening the visibility required for controlled operations.

My team needs fewer clicks, but I can’t have controls disappear just because the sidebar got cleaner.

Fajar Ngo · Platform Engineering Manager

Oversees developers and administrators operating dozens of internal and customer-facing agent workflows.

What pulls against what

  • developer speed vs. governance visibility
  • unified navigation vs. role-specific needs
  • migration certainty vs. product-native structure
  • clean hierarchy vs. legacy route continuity

What is at stake

The migration can simplify daily work, but its information architecture will shape access, discoverability, and governance for years

Why Algolia

At Algolia, this can affect how confidently enterprise teams operate agents as their workflows and controls grow.

Written for

Platform product designersInformation architecture specialistsEnterprise systems designers

This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.