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
Reference
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