I’d like to give UI3 a chance, but the movement of the tools to the middle of my workspace is so unbelievably disruptive I can’t imagine ever using it.
I’m already constantly squeezed for height - as you’d expect, since the aspect ratio of a desktop screen vs. the long lengths of pages and mobile screens means that there is vertical scroll in 100% of my files.
The bottom of my screen is also the most visually cluttered part of my desktop by far. For any mac user using a bottom navigation bar (I presume most of us) you’re already overloaded with icons and navigation in the lower part of the screen. The way this is implemented means it’s also in the middle of my design work, and the cognitive load of trying to make decisions in this space is brutal. I have to imagine I’m not the only one out here with ADHD, and not being able to move the tools to the top or to a less cluttered part of the screen where I am not constantly clicking to work / navigate is pretty deeply unusable. I keep trying to find an option to drag them to the top, or literally, anywhere else that isn’t overlapping and hiding a critical part of my workspace.
All you’ve done is make my working area smaller for no good reason, and made the tools harder to use. I understand it’s less distance for how you’re using it, but I never want my tools in the middle of my workspace and given the fact that I’m always going to be working on files with vertical height it will always overlap my work in a super disruptive way. This is the sort of thing you offer as an option, not the only way to work. I can’t even resize it so it gets in my way less.
I couldn’t even say if the other changes are good because this creates such an annoying obstacle I can’t use it.