In principle, however, I am not comfortable giving over control of a site that has financial information, and thus potential financial ramifications, to a chrome extension.
To echo other comments. If you made this for AWS though, id have no choice but to adopt. That site is too fucked not to accept any solution to clean it up
I hope this doesn't sound critical (because I like when people make a change for the better and share it), but before doing this, did you provide feedback to DigitalOcean regarding their menus? If so, did they respond?
Seems odd to me to create a Chrome Extension to change what would probably be a pretty minor change on DO's end for everyone's benefit.
Project managers would need to write a proposal and use cases. UX/design would need to meet and make wireframes and mocks. Engineers would need to nail down the technical design. The time and costs would have to be approved by management. They'd likely end up discussing the change with their biggest clients to make sure it doesn't interrupt their work flow. Eventually the engineers will be able to write a bit of code to make the change -- at which point QA will get their hands on it when they finally have time.
This is why suggestions like that are typically "put on the roadmap" with little likelihood of actually happening.
Their support suggested I post on their UserVoice ( http://do.co/uservoice ) which I did and sent them the links. They've then passed the links "along to our control panel team so that they are aware".
I work in a similar software company and I know how much time it takes from an idea coming through to support > product managers > UI > implementation > QA > rolling out to production so I just built the extension myself.
Again, this was years ago - no commentary on DO 2017. I still use them for all of my personal projects.
It's structure is simple, but that doesn't preclude it from being confusing.
For example, where do you go to see a list of your volumes (virtual block storage, like EBS)? Well you click on the "Droplets" button which shows you a list of Droplets (instances).
Personally, I would've rathered that they rename "Image" to "Storage" and put both images and volumes under that.
