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If your intention is to reduce the reduced sidepanel real estate to zero, there's really very few options available in terms of design patterns. The question simply becomes 'where do you put the button' For example, The Opera Desktop Browser has a button at the bottom left, in the status bar which toggles the visibility of the panel: Other positions ...

When designing an interface, you should focus on making it as easy to use as you can, not on doing something new for the sake of it. And as your question stands you haven't really shown what the problem with checkboxes is that you are going to solve with icons and colours. So breaking it down with specific reasons: Checkboxes clearly indicate their state ...

Based on the images you have displayed and the issue you are having, I would suggest showing the charts upfront to the user "if" your users are expected to have a level of knowledge, that the charts would make self on its own. If the your users, might not understand the overall concept of the chart, show the data upfront instead. I would then remove the ...

The triangle expander control you are referencing here is described by Microsoft in their Progressive Disclosure Controls Guidelines. This particular control is the only one that displays in it's Present State (as opposed to the 'future state' i.e. the state it will be in when selected) this is because it (apparently) resembles a rotating lever so shows the ...

I would not use a treeview. (A) Use HEADLINE 1.1 and HEADLINE 1.2 as a headline with the option "EXPAND ALL". Below you placed the tree with the collapsible SUBHEADERS. (B) There are too many elements then you can also split the tree in 2 views (first is a list and second a tree).