Supporting experimentation with Side-Views
Michael A. Terry, Elizabeth D. Mynatt · Communications of the ACM · 2002
this article, we introduce Side Views, a user interface mechanism that offers users on-demand, persistent, dynamic previews of one or more commands and their parameters. Side Views support creative practitioners' natural tendency to explore many options in parallel by offering users the ability to generate and manipulate previews for multiple commands simultaneously. Side Views allow users to clarify the effect of commands, make comparisons between commands, experiment, and serendipitously discover viable alternatives