Inspirational User Interfaces

I draw inspiration from a lot of tools that I use. Here’s some things I think some other things do a good job of doing sic, but self-loathingly so].

VS Code Insiders

• Snippets (from Sublime?)

• Command Palette (from Sublime?)

• Customizability

• Extensibility

• Observability (Dev Tools)

Blender

• Subdividable UI views

• Pane-sensitive keybindings

SolidWorks

• Click Wheel Shortcuts

• Keyboard shortcuts

Chrome DevTools

• Flame Charts

• Live editability/observability

  • Console

  • CSS

  • DOM editing

Vi(m)

• Editing modes

The Web

• Scrolling

  • Did scrolling exist before the internet? Yes of course. Take the scroll, for instance. 🤦‍♂️

Keyboards

• Typing

The Cursor

• Attention focus

The TouchPad

• multi-finger gestures