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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!

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.