Question

I really want to know if I’m missing anything obvious in the software I’m developing.

What User Interface features that you consider important are often missing in most software?

Answer 1

These are some of the UI features that I often find are done badly, or are even missing:

• Restoring window state properly.
• Conforming to the average (non-beginner, non-expert) user’s mental model.
• Restricting the number of choices that the user has to make.
• Restricting the amount that users have to read while using the app.
• Strong consistency with other apps of the same genre running on the same platform.
• A well-done Undo / Restore facility.
• As somebody else remarked, context-sensitive help.
• Allowing an app to be navigated without the aid of a mouse.
• Good multi-monitor support.