S60 Open to new features

Related to my previous entry, I'm thinking of ways of improving the everyday use of the S60 device, making it more efficient. We, as users, tend to do things the way we are used to, repeating the same patterns and routines again and again. This is quite natural and part in learning and memorizing how to use a complex environment designed to perform a huge number of different tasks (and S60 qualifies here!). These patterns may occur in the navigation ("Open menu, scroll down, enter folder, scroll, open application") or inside various applications.

Sometimes these patterns may feel natural, sometimes we don't even notice their existence - and sometimes they repeatedly annoy us ("Why haven't they come up with a better way to add a simple smiley to an SMS!").

In a perfect world, good design and extensive research makes the UI easy, intuitive and efficient to use from the very first release. Then there's the real world with all the time and resource constraints. However, application developers should have an open eye toward user feedback, always eager doing it a bit better next time.

Can you identify patterns in your everyday use, things you repeat that may not be the most efficient way of getting the task done? Why do you repeat them - because you don't know a better way? Or are you limited by the UI and the environment?

And, do you know how to work around the problem?