These designs incorporate the http://drupal.org/project/form_builder module on top of the Field UI:

Fields become a pallette of options that can be dragged into the form area for a more WYSIWYG experience.

Clicking a field opens its properties pane on the left sidebar

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Hm.

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Would be great, but since core didn't do this, we don't either.