en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 21:14:56 +0000 An RSS feed generated by IdeaJam(tm) for Smart resorting of design element tabs in Designer http://ideajam.net/ideajam/p/ij.nsf http://ideajam.net/ideajam/p/ij.nsf http://ideajam.net/ideajam/p/ij.nsf/LogoSquare.gif?OpenImageResource Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:38:47 +0000 <b>Author:</b> Mark Demicoli<br><b>Tags:</b> <a href="http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/ProductByCategory?openview&restricttocategory=designer tabs">designer tabs</a> <br><b>Idea:</b> <div>Currently:&nbsp;Each time a design element is opened a tab is created to the right of any existing tabs.&nbsp; Opening more than a certain number of design elements results in a drop-down appearing on the far-right.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The problem with this is that the latest opened elements are likely to be the ones you currently need most&nbsp; - right?</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>I think there could be a simple but productive improvement, by intelligently sorting the most used / most recently opened design element tabs to the left.&nbsp; This scheme could be augmented by a kind of progressively fading background colouring of tabs based on how long they've been open / most used.&nbsp; The background could fade progressively indicating reduced usage, eventually dropping off into the drop-down menu on the right.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>This amounts to a kind of UI&nbsp;visual cue system that can be described as a Heat Map of activity.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Too fancy?&nbsp; I think it could really work and could be useful in the Notes Client aswell.</div><br> http://ideajam.net/ideajam/p/ij.nsf/0/F4BC63D065115F4A86257A1A003FFA17?OpenDocument