Retro Sketch - New Popup Options

Discrete Layer Options UX

One of the primary goals for Retro Sketch, our pixel art drawing software, is to keep the user interface and experience as simple as possible. We want to be able to spend more time making art, and less time wrestling with the UI. So we’ve decided to remove the clutter and make sure that we don’t hide feature behind menus by popping up an options menu when you double click (single click if already active) on any layer. This will work the same for the animation window.

As you can see in the animation above, we’re simply popping up the context menu right over the layer, rather than hiding it in the tools menu or inside some other hidden menu. This helps keep the software out of the way and allows us to do what we’re wanting to do… draw!