1. The layout of the desktop app is terrible. There is tons of unused empty space. On top of that, things are needlessly busy and contain too much oddly formatted information. This may be in part due to the naming scheme the gov't uses, but an option should exist to create and view nicknames.

Because of this, there really isn't an option to minimize teams to a small area on your monitor. You need it maximized to be usable, but it clearly doesn't actually require that much space to be functional.

There should also be a way to minimize it to a very small space and lock it to be in front of all other apps, so you dont have to constantly be clicking between apps.

1. This feedback forum is terrible. I almost didn't even bother leaving a comment. I'm already taking time out of my day to suggest improvements to your product for free. You really expect people to wade through all the BS of this process and post something? Just make it easy to submit a comment, and hire a couple people to sort through them, organize them by category and set priorities. You are microsoft, you clearly have the budget to support that, but instead we are expected to give you free labor on top of our potentially money making/saving suggestions.

OSX has user interface standards, please use them like you do for other applications. Specifically your notifications really have to be made part of the OSX standard notifications system. Same on Win10 actually. Other O365 Office apps already do this.

Second, put the settings in the "Preferences" section under the app menu like the OSX standard requires. You can leave it in the image as well, but OSX users look for settings in the Preferences menu below the Application "Named" menu (first one after the system Apple menu to the right).

The notifications thing is just awful both on OSX and Windows.

Please enable a warning prompt before closing Microsoft TEAMS. I keep clicking on the 'x' in the upper, right corner to close a window thinking that it will close the file or page I'm currently looking at within Microsoft TEAMS. It is actually the close application button and immediately closes Microsoft TEAMS entirely! There is no warning prompt that comes up that asks 'Do you want to exit the program?'. I have to keep logging in and logging in and logging in, because I am naturally attuned to closing a page within the application using the 'x'. Please enable a warning prompt and if one exists already, please make it easy to toggle on and off. I've looked everywhere in options and settings and cannot find a way to turn one on.

The policy for our cloud has been changed so that the user is logged out after 18 hours. This effectively means that every single day a user has to log in and they are logged out probably while they are sleeping getting ready for the next day. The 6 hours of inactivity is long enough for the CSRF tokens to expire, and I repeatedly forget that when I'm prompted to log back in at the start of my day, I'm going to type my secure 16+ character password and then have to type it again because "sorry, your session has timed out". When a session times out, I think either the UX should show an error message immediately so that a user can take action to refresh their session tokens, if a user starts to enter input you could check and show the error then, or you could just accept the password because you're in a login process so it's unclear why stale tokens would better in this case provided the authentication process succeeds. Maybe it's hard to provide different session tokens after the authentication finishes? In any case, this is a huge annoyance and discourages secure passwords.