Thanks for the response. I think a good portion of designers who use Photoshop use more shortcuts than standard user. M for marquee. U for shape. Command + Cli

Thanks for the response. I think a good portion of designers who use Photoshop use more shortcuts than standard user. M for marquee. U for shape. Command + Click on Object and move to duplicate the object. Space for hand tool. In other words, every tool has a shortcut so that it's easier to access and in fact, I barely use tool menus except to edit values. It's just so much more efficient to use keyboard commands than to click on every single element. Docking the property inspector to the left or right or allowing the user to customize it would be a great option. I still think layers provide a lot of power that's really useful (layer styles, easy to switch which object appears over what, easy to create multiple states) but I'll defer to you since this is your vision for the project.