@Vlk
Ok, I've made a new design and took full interface functionality into consideration by using Premier as example instead of Free version.
Lets leave the basic interface layout as it was designed by avast! team for this version, add "Virus Chest" to the sidebar (I'll be insisting on this one!). There is enough space even for Premier edition layout to have Virus Chest there. Split "Shields" and "Scan" into two separate icons under "Protection" panel, each with its own separate panel when you click one or another. For the sake of being clear what's what and giving you more space instead of cramming both real-time and on-demand on the same panel and getting rid of those silly "Pi" tiny buttons. I'll be insisting on this one as well, because the one with real-time and on-demand stuff under single panel looks absolutely horrible. I think my design of split real-time and on-demand is way more logical and user friendly, especially when it comes to touch control (good luck finger tapping that tiny "Pi" button on a Windows tablet using finger...).
What do you think Vlk? Minimal effort because I haven't dramatically changed the interface, but it looks and feels so much better than what we have in current live BETA.
And a side note about the firewall...
I never paid any attention to it since I'm using free version which doesn't have it, but for the love of all that's holy, it's horrendous. I know we're all friends here, but I have no polite words to describe it how bad the UX design is for the firewall component. And it's early 2017. I didn't expect such bad application control in firewalls back from 2005 era, let alone now. The layout is bad, Application Settings panel is one giant mess, I'm having problems figuring it out and you expect normies to understand it? Oh my god. But again, like always, new big version and no time to fix this properly in 2 weeks time... But seriously, you have to redesign the firewall interface if you want anyone to actually pay for it. Because I wouldn't want to use it even if someone gave it to me for free. Yeah, it's that bad. Just a well meant advice if you want to sell things to people...