What are some of your favorite practices in GUI design?

I saw a conversation a few weeks ago about LVOOP vs Clusters for passing around data that I found fascinating - and quite informative. I thought I'd try to open up a discussion about GUI design and see what I could learn.
Edit: to give an example, I have found that I have taken an irrational dislike to tab controls. Instead, I use clusters with a few supporting VIs. Switching the "tab" will just make the proper cluster visible, and the others invisible. Set each cluster as a type def in the project and just edit that for when I need to change something. It lets me already have all of my control data bundled, and as a bonus sorts them automatically in Event structures.

mikeporter wrote:
So to sum up:
Tab Controls -- Bad
Subpanels -- Good
I wouldn't go that far. I generally need to be more organized in my block diagram when using tabs, but that doesn't mean they are bad. Have a state in a state machine for updating each tab. Then when updating the UI look at which tab the user is on, and only update those UI elements.
There are other limitations to tabs that frustrate me, like .Net controls sometimes do weird things in tabs. And some times I would have too many tabs and it starts to add rows which get all kinds of confusing. In these cases I would hide the tabs and replicate the functionality with a single column listbox which changes the tab value. But at that point it would be just as easy to insert a different VI into a subpanel.
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