Blender user interface design

[kynu]

exactly…
Plus my (and others’) former proposal that it should hold square icons instead of vertical text.
You should be able to work the very same way with them as with “collapsed to icon” windows in Photoshop. Clicking on the icon should open and close the info in it.
I elaborated in this post:

Blender UI paper cuts

Using 2.8 I find myself many times expecting Blender’s UI work similar to Photoshop’s. But that one is polished for decades now in the same principles so they have a lot to catch up to. One particular thing is tapping on tabs in the N panel. I tap on them many times expecting this: [image] This would also be handy for tablet users

and this post:

Blender UI paper cuts

The other idea is not a paper-cut but because it’s related I’d like to post it here. I hope it still lands in the right person’s brain. Again it’s a PS paradigm that every panel is movable and dockable anywhere. AND I JUST LOVE THAT. And it’s super-complementary to Blender’s ideology with one key difference: Blender treats the different panel structures as islands. Bars, panels and editors are not interchangeable. Forget bars, that’s limited in PS too, but would solutions lik…

and IMHO N shouldn’t hide everything - it should do the same, just collapse it back to the icon column.
Hiding it completely should be a conscious act with right click menu or dragging - same as with the top bar. The current behavior is just not enough.

Here’s one of the image from the posts above just to make this one more flashy

I hope devs come back to this idea… they said they wanted something like this but I see it nowhere on the roadmap.