In the shoulder season I like lined knitted fingerless gloves. Mine are alpaca with polar fleece lining and came from a fair trade store. You can use these longer than you think with a secret weapon...handwarmers. I have a few kinds. One is small stick kind I got from Lee Valley that is
small enough to slip into the mitts. These also fit well in mittens, but are a little bulky for gloves. Once it gets too cold for those, I often will do one hand in a mitten and one in a mitt and swap them when out using my phone. (If I want to play gps-based phone games when it is really cold, I wear mittens with handwarmers in them and use a stylus!). I also have larger ubs handwarmers that are more pocket sized. I have sometimes just held one though, esp when it is cold enough to make a phone battery drain fast! Usually I just use them to make my pockets all toasty so I can warm my hands up fast. The other game-changer was disposable handwarmers. You can actually make these last way longer if you put them away between uses! They are oxygen activated, so if I stick them in a loksak or even a good ziplock when I am done, I can happily open that bag later and have a new round of toasty hands! Not BIFL, but seriously improved my hand pain. Another type of handwarmer I have tried are reusable, but need to be boiled to re-activate. These are the warmest of all the options! For about 15 minutes or so. But they are small enough to slip into gloves and great for times when you aren't out very long.