Overview
Presenting with IdeaLayer is intuitive, tactile, and engaging. Whether displayed on a giant touch wall or a handheld tablet, the user experience is designed to feel fluid and exploratory—no training or instructions required. Every interaction is powered by natural touch gestures, and every page is a window into deeper, richly layered content.
What makes IdeaLayer stand apart is its ability to combine structured content with a freeform browsing experience. Users are invited to move through layered navigation, activate media elements, zoom in on details, and jump between topics without losing context.
The Interactive Experience
Each IdeaLayer project (or presentation) is made up of pages that hold one or more content zones, arranged either freely on a canvas or according to one of several layout options (explained in the next section). These zones can contain:
Images that expand when tapped
Video previews that play inline or fullscreen
PDFs that can be browsed and zoomed
Web views and live data widgets
Carousels and galleries of content that can be swiped through to activate relevant content
At the base of the screen sits the navigation bar, a key UI element for moving between parent and child pages. This navigation adapts to your project's hierarchy and can include multiple levels of nested tabs—making it easy for you to drill down into topics and return seamlessly.
Key Gestures and Behaviours
Tap: Open a content item, trigger a video, or activate a link
Pinch to zoom: Enlarge media, particularly useful for PDFs and image-heavy content
Drag and rotate: Reposition content elements to help visualise and tell a story
Swipe: Navigate through carousels and galleries of content
These gestures allow you to physically engage with the information, turning a presentation into a hands-on, personalised experience. In many environments—like property display suites or innovation hubs—this interaction becomes part of the brand experience itself.
Designing for Exploration
Content in IdeaLayer is never presented passively. Instead, it's meant to be discovered, interacted with, and explored. A well-designed project:
Groups related content using nested navigation
Encourages movement across tabs and pages
Presents interactive elements that invite users to dive deeper
Splits out elements into seperate content items (images, PDFs, videos, web sites) rather than embedding in a single document.
Highlights visual storytelling through animation, motion, and transitions
In the next section, we’ll look at how each page is constructed—exploring the different layout options available to you as a content creator or administrator, and how they influence the presentation experience.