Personally, I do not like the default launcher on most phones. It makes your home screen look messy. But I can’t get used to pure minimal either. I still want it to be a bit of an eye candy.

That’s why I fell in love with TinyBit Launcher. When you spend enough time ricing it it can look really good.

• TinyBit Launcher
• Unexpected Keyboard
• Arcticons

I usually go with Krita. Not because of the UI, i just learnt to use it first and like it. Or Inkscape for vector graphics.