Sidebar widget brainstorm 🧠

A design brainstorm for ways we can use the Stack Overflow sidebar more purposely. Right now we treat it as a junk drawer.

My ideas can mostly be categorized into the following categories: • Surface things currently hidden in menus or settings. • Combine data we already have in new ways. • Call out announcements and reminders (we’re not great at in-product marketing) • Just-in-time guidance

Not sure how much of this we’ll act on, but it was a fun diversion for a day or two 🤠