The interface layer

• No getting lost between screensThe tab strip keeps every screen where you left it.
• You find what you look forTwo separate search layers for menus and records.
• The same system on the phoneThe top bar and forms fit the small screen.

All the differences from the standard core come from a single observation: people work on several screens at once all day and do not want to start from a lost place every time they come back.

The tab strip

The strip at the bottom of the screen is the in-system equivalent of browser tabs. The + at the end of the strip opens the current screen as a second tab.

A tab carries not only the screen but the filters too: if you close a facet, switch to another tab and come back, the facet you closed is still closed. Every tab remembers its place, and this is kept on the server per user — reloading the page does not break the tabs.

Tabs are independent: clicking an application in the side panel takes the tab you are in there; it does not jump you to another tab.

The application panel

The applications menu is not a drop-down box but a fixed panel that opens to the left, and it pushes the content to the right instead of covering it. It can be pinned, it has an application search inside, everyone starts with the same home default and every user can change it for themselves. It does not come into play on small screens.

Application memory

The application name in the top bar is not decoration but a button: a small dot and a thin frame say that it is clickable, and when clicked it returns to that application's main screen. The dot's colour is the application's own colour.

Two searches

Above these, every list screen has its own search box, filters and grouping — that is the most powerful one.

Icon library

Icons are not scattered files but live in a library shared across the company; if the same image is uploaded twice, it is de-duplicated by its digest. Record pickers, chatter folders, SOTION pages and the media box use the same picker.