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Hi, 

Very good topic and also a current one. I designed a new Intranet concept to one of my client after the future of Sharepoint event.

This client of my feels very strongly about the global navigation. We dicussed about the Office 365 and the way SharePoint is going to evolve. 

After several sessions and long discussion we decided the following:

- no global navigation

- a form of "global navigation" will be in the SharePoint view by promoted sites 

- All the navigation will be made via SharePoint view

- Follow suggestions guidelines are made my job role, to make adoption easier

-- > but this is just a starging point design. The design will be reviewed after all the new features are launched by the end of this year. Then we can actually see is if this really is the way to go plan - or is there still a way to make a traditional Intranet design.

During the discussions our major concern was the users. The concept is so different than any other site used before it will require a huge amount of internal support and guidance.

Also we identified that the information architecture has to be changed and re-designed after we know more about the new SharePoint Framework based pages.

This is how far I have gotten with this issue for now. It would be great to hear what others think about this matter.