I love the goals here, and this can definitely work.
The current key shortcuts seem a bit wrong to me though.
A few issues:
- Tab is never ever used as a "create something" button. It's always "move between things". So this is the wrong choice. And making shift-tab create something in a different direction is completely unintuitive. Shift-enter or ctrl-enter or something would be better.
- It shouldn't be possible to have multiple created-but-empty cells. UIs seem to work much better when there is only one cell in that state. If you create one then move away from it before editing it, it should go away.
- Needs bigger visual difference between editing state and selected state.
Also, I'd suggest that there can be a preview mode that uses pretty layout (non-grid based) then edit mode which uses the grid.
The current key shortcuts seem a bit wrong to me though.
A few issues:
- Tab is never ever used as a "create something" button. It's always "move between things". So this is the wrong choice. And making shift-tab create something in a different direction is completely unintuitive. Shift-enter or ctrl-enter or something would be better.
- It shouldn't be possible to have multiple created-but-empty cells. UIs seem to work much better when there is only one cell in that state. If you create one then move away from it before editing it, it should go away.
- Needs bigger visual difference between editing state and selected state.
Also, I'd suggest that there can be a preview mode that uses pretty layout (non-grid based) then edit mode which uses the grid.