​​Substance Designer UI & UX

​​Unused space

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​​Unused space
​​Areas marked in red could be removed without sacrifing fuctionality. Removing them would make  “workspace” larger and UI cleaner. 
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​​Loading and engine bar.
  • ​​Merging with top bar would remove one row that isn’t used anything else.
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​​Camera and light buttons
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  • ​​option to hide these buttons for people that use shortcuts 
  • ​​merge with bottom bar or turn them into hover icons (e.g. picture bellow)
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​​Menu snaping
  • ​​Smaller snaping area (to move bar closer to edges without snaping) or use modifier key to stop snaping (e.g. bottom image from Fusion 360)
  • ​​Custom “favorite” nodes to keep only most used ones 
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User-uploaded image: menu+snaping.png
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​​Main menu bar
  • ​​smaller main menu bar with essential buttons and others hidden in submenu
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User-uploaded image: main+menu+bar.png
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​​Tab menu
  • ​​close button could be moved into tab top like Google Chrome to seve one row.
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​​3D View menu
  • ​​shortcut for edit button (e.g. ctrl+left click) on top menu to open edit properties. It ise quiet chore to switch between these properties.
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​​Texture preview on model
  • ​​alt+left click on node to preview in as diffuse color.
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​​Node shortcuts
  • ​​add shortcut button in right click menu of nodes in Library
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