Improving user experience in Designer

[DGee]

There are so many things that contribute to a smooth user experience in these apps but there are some obstacles in the way of the user experience that are hard to understand. One of the typical features of a typical consumer app is that is not built to work on the fine details because their users don't even have the skills to do so. On the other hands Affinity apps at this point are fully featured and competitive for professionals however they lack some foundational understanding of what great design needs. We need to be able to focus 100% on the work we are doing, we need to be able to hide panels etc... because visual perception is a b*tch and it's already hard enough to deal with that. I'll mention a few areas where we need to be able to hide tools:

1. Type tool: There is no current way to hide the text box, tex edges, pulsating cursor line etc... How and I supposed to kern with a pulsating vertical line somewhere in the space I'm trying to compare with another... It's really tricky to work like that.

2. History timeline: I love this tool, it's amazing but unless you're able to hide all the clutter of selection boxes etc it's kinda worthless when you are evaluating fine details. I'm currently working around this issue by holding the spacebar while dragging the history bar however it is not intended for that use and sometimes it gets locked. We need a separate and comprehension set of options to hide all that clutter.

How long can this take to implement? a couple of hours? I've been asking for this for a long time... Honestly....this is one of those things that make you think it's not even worth bothering with something that's not illustrator for professional assignments where time is gold.