Floating Actions And Accordion Filters
Here's a screenshot of our internal admin at the Tribune. It's what I've been working on for the last week or so. Things of note:
* The action bar is fixed to the top of the screen once you scroll past it. Makes is super easy to always be able to take an action.
* The filters are handled as a series of accordions. They're expanded when the page loads if you have anything other than "All" selected, otherwise they stay out of your way.
The best part about it -- all of this is available as the pops[1] package that you can use for *any* Django project's admin.