Desktop Neo

Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity. by Lennart Ziburski in 2016. I think it was his undergrad thesis?

Sliding full-height panel interface, with collapsable and pinnacle panels, somewhat akin to 10 GUI. Apps are dragged in from a panel which slides down from the top of the screen, a refinement of the iPadOS app selection paradigm.

Well-polished comps here, but I wish the reasoning were a bit more thorough. Sentences like this are typical, without further discussion of exactly what problems are to be solved: “The desktop metaphor as the basis of computer interfaces is inefficient and outdated.” “The concept of a file being located in a single place seems outdated.”

Interestingly, it proposes gaze tracking as a core input mechanism.