Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Transparent Layers (12 Jan 2005) Baudisch calls his technique multiblending. Multiblending uses multiple layers to make manipulating tools or data on a small screen easier. Multiblending allows you to see through all the layers on your screen. User studies showed that multiblended palettes provided higher recognizability of both the background and the palette than the best version of alpha blending. "With multiblending, we think about which features we really care about instead of mixing everything together in the same way. In the case of an image editing program, what we really care about in our foreground is the edges of the tools, and preserving color in the background image." Article URL: http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=1038 Read 141 more articles from Microsoft sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Web Design for All the Senses     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy