I used to think like that, but it doesn't match my experience from my years of building (traditional) GUIs. I believe it is almost always better to stick to the

I used to think like that, but it doesn't match my experience from my years of building (traditional) GUIs. I believe it is almost always better to stick to the couple of standard widgets that are available everywhere and known by everyone. In the very rare cases it's not it is better to build a custom widget that matches your customers requirements exactly. Nothing is worse than a half-baked GUI element idea, badly implemented and sloppily maintained that matches like 85% of your customers requirements - and that's what most non-standard widgets are. Quality and consistency trump quantity in my opinion.