User story:
User has multiple layers (A B and C). All layers are kept switched off other
than the layer currently being edited: A. When user wants to edit layer B,
layer A has to be hidden (1 click), layer B has to be displayed (1 click) and
selected (1 click).
That's a total of 3 clicks just to switch layers. Something which I find myself
doing a lot is hiding A, showing B then I continue working.. only to find I'm
still editing layer A.
Could possible solutions be:
- right-clicking the layer visibility Eye icon also enables the layer
and
- middle clicking the layer visibility Eye icon also selects it, and hides the
previously enabled layer
The first solution reduces the number of clicks to 2 to switch layers, the
second solution reduces it to 1 single click.
In the long run that would save the user a lot of redundant clicking. Small
change to the interaction design, but I find this is slowing down my user
experience.
Right-clicking the Eye icon to show all layers, or isolate that layer is a
great key combo by the way. Very well thought out.
Oh and I'm using 78 layers, and my file is currently 3,457KB. I'm really
impressed with the speed and stability despite the size of my file.. number of
crashes so far: nill
Thanks for your consideration / comments.
Reis
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