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+# [Things end users care about but programmers don't](https://instadeq.com/blog/posts/things-end-users-care-about-but-programmers-dont/)
+
+_(And we agree with them, but our tools make it really hard to provide)_
+
+---
+
+## Colors
+
+- Change color of things
+- Nice default color palette
+- Use my preferred color palette
+- Use __this__ color from here
+- Import/export color themes
+- Some words or identifiers should always have a specific color
+- The same thing should have the same color everywhere
+- Good contrast
+- Automatic contrast of text if I pick a dark/light background
+- Automatically generate color for large number of items
+    - All the colors should belong to the same palette
+    - Don't generate colors that are hard to tell apart
+    - Don't place similar colors close to each other
+    - Don't use the background color on things
+
+## Formatting
+
+- Apply basic formatting to text
+- Align text
+- Use the fonts I use in Office
+- WYSIWYG editor that behaves like Word
+- Number alignment
+- Number/date formatting to the right locale
+- Decimal formatting to the right/fixed number of decimal places
+- No weird .0000004 formatting anywhere
+- No .00 for integers
+- Emoji support
+
+## Themes
+
+- Dark theme
+- My Theme
+- Company Branding
+- Put the logo in places
+- My logo on the Login Page
+
+## Integrations
+
+- Integrate with system accounts
+- Use accounts/permissions from Active Directory
+- Import from Excel/CSV
+- Import from email/email attachment
+- Export to Excel
+- Export to PDF/Image
+- Record a short video
+    - As a GIF
+- Send as email
+    - Send as email periodically
+    - Send as PDF attachment on an email
+- Import/attach images
+    - Crop before upload
+    - Compress
+    - Change Format
+- Use image as background but stretch the right way
+- Notifications on the app
+    - On apps on my phone
+    - By SMS
+    - On our systems
+    - On my mail
+
+## UX
+
+- Good error handling
+- Good error descriptions
+    - Translated error messages
+- Tell me what to do to solve an error
+- Tell me what this does before I click on it
+- Support touch gestures __and__ mouse
+- Keyboard shortcuts
+    - Customizable
+- Undo everywhere
+- Multiple undo
+- Recover deleted things
+- Ask before deleting
+- Copy and paste
+- Templates
+- Detailed and up to date guides in text with screenshots at each step and highlights
+    - And in Video
+    - Screenshots that stay up to date as the product evolves
+    - That are in sync with the version I'm using
+    - That adapt to my custom setup
+- Up to date and detailed documentation
+- Translated to my language
+- Sorting everywhere
+    - Natural sort
+    - Sort by multiple criteria
+- Filter everywhere
+    - Fuzzy filtering
+    - Case sensitive/insensitive filtering
+    - Filter by multiple/complex criteria
+- Track what is used where and warn me when deleting
+- Optional cascade deletion
+- Native and simple date picker on every platform
+- Sorted lists/selects (by the label!)
+    - Natural Sorting
+- Dropdowns with filtering but that behave like the native controls
+- Preview things
+- Consistent button ordering/labels
+- Consistent capitalization
+- Progress bars for slow/async operations
+- Responsive UI during slow operations
+- Disabling buttons during slow operations
+- Handling double clicks on things that should be clicked once
+- Clear indication of what can be clicked
+
+## Compatibility
+
+- Deploy on exotic configurations/platforms
+- Deploy on old/unsupported versions
+- Deploy on what we have
+- Deploy/Run without internet connection
+- Handle Excel, CSV, JSON, XML
+    - Handle malformed versions of all of the above
+- Handle (guess) dates with no timezone
+- Handle ambiguous/changing date formats
+- Integrate with obscure/outdated software/format
+- It should work on my old android phone browser/IE 11
+- Unicode
+    - Handle inputs with unknown and variable encodings
+
+## Operations
+
+- Easy to install
+- Easy to update
+- Easy to backup
+- Easy to recover
+- Works with the database and version we use
+- Can be mounted on a path that is not the root of the domain