One of the goals for 2015 is to provide more creative ways for designers and developers to make changes to the layout, behavior and design of a webpage, without only relying on typing CSS properties or Javascript code or HTML tags.
We've started to introduce more visual tools over the course of 2014, like the box-model highlighter, the CSS transform previewer, the cubic-bezier editor tooltip, and lately the new animation inspection panel.
There is a need to introduce more of these tools, and tie them up together in a UI that makes sense for designers and creative developers.
Here's a list of tools that so far either exist or are being developed or are planned and that together would form a very interesting toolkit:
- relative to an element:
- the element picker