A new design pattern that's popping up: tab + dropdown Navigational tabs mixed with complex dropdown behaviour, mimicking a mega menu! Our apps are getting so complex that we're bending traditional simplicity rules Alternatives may include: DropTab PillDrop MegaTab PopTab

are we rediscovering context menus now

It’s a whole new world out there

Is that also a tab?

so good its now featured on aiverse

Could you credit the videos?

oh yeah we always do. missed out on adding your handle. done!

💪 MEGATAB™ 💪

What I'm really looking for is a dialog inside a tab

Brother.. it's a menu

Just don’t DropPills

A better interface pattern is using command pallete inline calls like in vscode to turn the prompt box into an IDE

Yeah, this is smooooth

This is why google won. None of that, no possibility of "holding it wrong", "you didn't do a deep research", "you didnt prompt it right". No way to mess up a google search

This what happens where devs think they can do UX and design.

@bradkowalk @magicX_ai

How it used to be

It will stay for 3mo and go away or redesigned once the usage data come in and show what’s mostly used.

At first glance it looks like the dropdown would benefit from a larger tappable area for mobile screens.

I completely changed the approached by putting the conversation on a horizontal scroll where each column is a prompt/response pair and that meaningfully gives the prompt box a whole column to properly lay out all sorts of elements like plugins, bots, files, etc. DM for access!

Nice, these go well together

interesting love it

seen keyboard navigation break first when tab state and menu state disagree

True, this pattern's been everywhere lately. Curious, do you think this pattern holds up on mobile too?

It feels like a lot of taps 🤔

Love this

The attention to detail regarding the "Computer" drop-down menu is fantastic

I think these are technically popovers but I’m team MEGATAB

that seem very useful but also it's confusing to use it this way, not used to it yet

This pattern already existed few years back, I saw one in a japanese dashboard around 2022.

PillDrop and MegaTab sound like frontend packages that will be abandoned by next Tuesday.

I've always called that a split button.

I design many of the complicated menus for workday, especially with keyboard accessibility in mind. Hit me up if you want to talk ☺️

As in Workday, Workday?

Poptart?

I love this idea. Its so organized and compact.