My number one principle of UI design is this: The things the user does most frequently need to be the easiest things to do. You expose the stuff the user need

My number one principle of UI design is this: The things the user does most frequently need to be the easiest things to do. You expose the stuff the user needs to do quickly without a lot of fuss, and you can bury the edge cases in menus. Sadly a lot of software has this inverted.