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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.

Most of all, I hope this finally helps convince more teams that their tools need customization of their UI, so that users can get the best workflows out of them. And for people to stop applying 2000's website UX/UI paradigms to professional daily use tools. Please stop, you can't blindly do that!

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

the overt provocation wins?