The new posibilities of action bar are really nice.
In de dropdown list we like to see all prefilters, because on small devices this is needed to see the title of the prefilter and users get confused when grouped prefilters are split in two places.
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Similar to Harms situation we struggle sometimes as well with certain zoom levels or resolutions that users seem to be using.
Personally I think an indicator would also be needed as a user will only know to look for more prefilters when they know they exists. Most times a screen seem to be okay with the prefilters that do show.
I have nothing come to mind myself that would a be a clear indicator, but perhaps some UI/UX expert has some suggestions?
+3I think indicators are something a user has to remember what it does (as some screens can have less prefilters, so no indicator will be shown), which makes me think our problem needs a different approach.
Users have more prefilters that can be shown, and the overflow menu with the prefilters is often overlooked. I have discussed this with our PM team and we think we can do better.
I am going to post a blog somewhere in the coming weeks about another option we have in mind which, I think, could solve your challenges. We think that grouping of buttons in expand/collapse buttons can do everything that is needed. Something like this:
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