[Design] Alternate sidebar designs for icons and the overlay state -- last call for votes

[John Anderson]

It also might not be too hard to smoothly animate a sliding tab, maybe 
just a day or two of work.

Mimi Yin wrote:
> After talking with Priscilla, I thought I might try something to 
> enhance the 'sliding tab' metaphor.
>
> Perhaps we could show a little bit of the tab in the 
> 'unchecked/unoverlayed' state and then have the tab slide out on 
> mouseover, more clearly obscuring/covering the tag icon, as opposed to 
> replacing it.
>
> The slight protuberance might be enough to provoke users to try 
> mousing over it such that we can limit the mouseover hotspot to just 
> the collection icon area, rather than spreading it out across the 
> entire collection row.
>
> Please put this animated gif in a browser to see what the interaction 
> might be like.
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