A method, comprising: receiving an indication that a communications application executing on a computing device is desirably displayed on a display screen of the computing device in a condensed view, the communications application displayable on the display screen in one of the condensed view or a full view, the condensed view occupying a first portion of the display screen, the full view occupying a second portion of the display screen that is larger than the first portion, wherein the full view provides additional functionalities compared to the condensed view, each of said additional functionalities being caused to be enabled when selected by a respective one of a plurality of tiles included in a navigation bar of a graphical user interface of the communications application; and displaying, on the display screen of the computing device, the communications application in the condensed view responsive to receiving the indication; characterized in that: the communications application is a unified communications application which supports multiple communications modalities, the communications modalities comprising instant messaging, video conferencing, and content sharing; the unified communications application in the condensed view is configured to receive and display real-time communications from at least one contact of a user of the computing device in any of the communications modalities; and the method further comprises displaying graphical data in the unified communications application in the condensed view to visually indicate to a user of the computing device one of said additional functionalities of the unified communications application most recently employed by the user of the computing device when the unified communications application was displayed in the full view; wherein said graphical data comprises a highlighted one of said tiles corresponding to said additional functionality most recently employed by the user. receiving an indication that a communications application executing on a computing device is desirably displayed on a display screen of the computing device in a condensed view, the communications application displayable on the display screen in one of the condensed view or a full view, the condensed view occupying a first portion of the display screen, the full view occupying a second portion of the display screen that is larger than the first portion, wherein the full view provides additional functionalities compared to the condensed view, each of said additional functionalities being caused to be enabled when selected by a respective one of a plurality of tiles included in a navigation bar of a graphical user interface of the communications application; and displaying, on the display screen of the computing device, the communications application in the condensed view responsive to receiving the indication; characterized in that: the communications application is a unified communications application which supports multiple communications modalities, the communications modalities comprising instant messaging, video conferencing, and content sharing; the unified communications application in the condensed view is configured to receive and display real-time communications from at least one contact of a user of the computing device in any of the communications modalities; and the method further comprises displaying graphical data in the unified communications application in the condensed view to visually indicate to a user of the computing device one of said additional functionalities of the unified communications application most recently employed by the user of the computing device when the unified communications application was displayed in the full view; wherein said graphical data comprises a highlighted one of said tiles corresponding to said additional functionality most recently employed by the user. the communications application is a unified communications application which supports multiple communications modalities, the communications modalities comprising instant messaging, video conferencing, and content sharing; the unified communications application in the condensed view is configured to receive and display real-time communications from at least one contact of a user of the computing device in any of the communications modalities; and the method further comprises displaying graphical data in the unified communications application in the condensed view to visually indicate to a user of the computing device one of said additional functionalities of the unified communications application most recently employed by the user of the computing device when the unified communications application was displayed in the full view; wherein said graphical data comprises a highlighted one of said tiles corresponding to said additional functionality most recently employed by the user.