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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!

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

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

A comment I get a lot on this is video: "If we build 'defaults' instead of 'sensible defaults', then defaults will be bad!" And that's like someone telling you to make 'a design' will make you make a bad one, but if they tell you to make a 'good design' then it'll be better. What nonsense is that?

My problem isn't with the word 'sensible'. If folks were to call it a 'proper default', a 'best default', or a 'wise default', they all still carry the same sentiment, and it is that sentiment which discourages thinking about customization, and so we lack it in the software we use, and build.