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Sensible Defaults do not exist, and neither do Best Practices. New video: youtu.be/deKtxzvf92g Whenever next anyone asks me what 'Sensible Default' to use, or what the 'Best Practices' are, I will link this video. It explains my arguments, includes examples, and hopefully finally puts it to rest.

Web UI conventions sure cast a large shadow over the entire UI world, largely not in a good way. And that’s coming from me, a web frontend dev and UX designer who works on a complex web app.

I found your perspective quite interesting and it reminds me to be less afraid to make certain parts of our tools more readily accessible for our specialist users, even if it means there are lots of inputs visible at once.

I have received many nice comments on this video so far, thank you! One in particular stood out to me: "You are so correct in all of this, you can really tell you have a lot of experience!" But, my thoughts on Tool Design haven't changed, since about 2014. I was called nuts back then. Times change

It's really strange to have things I used to be ridiculed for, now be shown as examples instead I'm not going to let that happen to the next generation. It's one of the big reasons I always listen to arguments from students, juniors, and others who are just starting out. All we have to do is listen

Thanks for the 10.000 views folks! I am glad to see this is resonating.

Nice, this video is already doing quite a bit better than my previous ones. Thank you to everyone that subscribed!

A peek behind the curtain: These are the thumbnails and titles I have set up so far. None of them sound particularly outstanding to me, but it is helpful for them to pull folks in, because that raises the click-through-rate on youtube, which then shows the video to more people. A perpetual cycle.

Wow, that’s a very clear winner quite fast! It usually doesn’t trigger that quickly, and 53% is an overwhelming percentage