Here's a 12-year-old thread about “Crowd funding project: Marking menus for Photoshop and other software” that I recently ran across, and wrote a reply to, providing more information and links, and correcting some old misinformation.
https://polycount.com/discussion/96932/crowd-funding-project...
Crowd funding project: Marking menus for Photoshop and other software
vertigo__ polycounter lvl 11
Offline / Send Messagevertigo__ polycounter lvl 11 Mar 2012
Recently I was telling a buddy of mine about how I hate digging through the standard menus in some software like Photoshop. In Maya or Zbrush I am used to creating either marking menus or custom palettes that allow me to assign multiple related commands to one hotkey. This is useful for organization and also more efficient than having one command assigned to one hotkey. He mentioned that he made an attempt to address this for Illustrator and wanted to expand the Idea to work with any software. He wants to generate $1000 to hire a programmer to help with the stuff that is outside his scope of knowledge. I figured there are probably others out there like us and I might find some like minded people here. Here is his pitch: http://www.indiegogo.com/unipie
Maybe people would like to pitch in ideas or gui designs too?