I’d like to point out that while I am a UI designer, the feature I described above was designed “selfishly” -- in other words, for myself based on how I use Photoshop. There’s a lot of specifics about it that I did not bother to tweak or describe. For example, what happens when there’s too many layers to fit in onscreen?

In short, I see it as a rough draft to convey the important aspects of layer selection, and by no means do I think that in this design it is a finished feature. I just wanted to throw out the basics out there.

But again, thanks for the compliments.