Ever since I first starting using NAV in 2016, I've understood the benefits of the fast tab in surfacing information, whilst hiding complexity, but been pained by the fact that they are in no way consistent with the shift to widescreen displays, visual widgets and proper separation between textual elements.

Yesterday I saw a demo of the future screen design for NetSuite and I saw they have cracked the design problem and leap frogged how Dynamics NAV/Business Central conceive of fast tabs.

In essence they have got rid of tabs altogether and transitioned it to a summary highlight of a particular section of information, the boxes ordered horizontally. Clicking on one of these boxes focuses down to that section of information. We would avoid the need to collapse all fast tabs to see those at the bottom and also make promoted information more readable and meaningful.

I implore the design team at Business Central to have a look at what they have done. It would be require almost no changes to underlying page data model to implement as it is a visual design choice only. The use of decorators or properties on field elements could be used to intelligently render promoted fields.