Preferences Window, Touch ID

roustem For the preferences window it's not about that in my eyes.

It's about consistency. On macOS I have a considerable muscle memory built up around ways of closing windows - you go to the top left, or you press Cmd+W. For the preferences window or other windows like the Add New Item window neither of these work - the close button is an X at the top right, and Cmd+W closes the whole 1Password window - which is definitely not what I would intend to do.

This breaks that muscle memory and you need an exceptionally good reason for doing so - it's worse in that you have some popups in the app that are native windows and some that are not - you need to pick one and stick to it or it's just confusing. And this is a password manager - it's a tool that we don't tend to use for an extended period on it's own, it's something that we jump in and out of all day. Given that, breaking that consistency with other apps on the platform is a really bad idea - it requires a mental context-switch every time I go to use 1Password.

And given this is meant to be a desktop app and not a web page it feels like the obvious choice is to stick to desktop UI conventions - you should be starting from the point of making this feel like a real window and asking what exceptionally good reason there is for breaking the user's expectations & learned interactions, not starting from the point of breaking the user's expectations and asking what exceptionally good reason there is to not do so.