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Three tips:

Record the interactions (you, and with test subjects too). You’ll see more things.

Study competing UIs. Consciously reverse engineer their UIs. Don't know what you like but get the idea:

  - PhotoShop vs Gimp
  - Maya vs Blender
  - Excel vs Numbers
  - FCP vs Premier vs Resolve
  - Finder vs Explorer

Watch youtubers using them. For example, music composers have very interesting and different programs UI-wise. Or DJs, which need interfaces for live-performance.

Then give it a twist and use not directly competing programs that can be used for a similar goal. For example, for UI design:

  - Figma vs Illustrator vs Inkscape vs PowerPoint vs PhotoShop vs Word vs Excel vs plain text