Questions tagged [buttons]
Buttons allow users to directly trigger an action or activity in a software solution, and is a concept borrowed from its physical counterpart in its digital design. Use this tag for questions about how buttons should be placed, styled, aligned or used to express their purpose and facilitate their operation.
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Why don't most elevator panels let you unselect?
We've all seen it in the movies where a kid will push all the buttons in an elevator. We've all likely done it - accidentally hit the wrong floor.
There's no unselect after you select a floor in an ...
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Why does the Google +1 button not change to a -1 once clicked?
When you +1 something on Google or Google+, the +1 button becomes red and clicking this red button will remove your +1 in the post.
Why was it designed like this? Changing the button color to red ...
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Best way to organize interface
I have an application where users can select some items from a catalogue and add into their reports.
Some users prefer to add positions one by one, first opening the catalogue, adding a new position, ...
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Width For Group Of Buttons
We are implementing browser based client, and we are having a little debate reg. setting width of buttons which are grouped together (either just layout wise or both layout and functionality wise). I ...
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Best placement for "ultimate" page actions
I'm designing an interface for a financial company and am not crazy about the placement of our buttons in some of our wireframes.
Essentially, the links in the left sidebar are for "smaller" actions: ...
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When does a button hold "too many" words?
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I came to ponder this question whilst mocking up a modal window for the application we're developing. I had trouble summarizing the semantic phrase: "Click here to get a list of all of the ...
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Which of the following options best draws attention to the "buy tickets" action without detracting from the surrounding visual hierarchy?
I'm working on touching up (as much as I'm allowed) some of the design elements for a website. One client requirement is to draw more attention to the "buy tickets" link as this action is one that ...
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Fit buttons next to textbox on a widget
I'm designing a widget to select names, and move them to two different fields.
The left list will display all available names. On the right we'll have two fields: a textbox and another list. User can ...
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Shading buttons darker than the normal state vs. highlighting
While coding up pieces of a website, I was puzzled as to why the designer chose a hover state that is a shade darker than its normal state. It seems logical to me that a rollover state should be a ...
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Button Placement
I'm currently developing a website and we have come across a few things on the placement with buttons that we are unsure about.
The website has a booking process and on this process we have right-...
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Button Names 'Click here' vs 'something else'
We're having internal arguments about how to label buttons with actions. Other folks in the internet teams, who aren't necessarily User-Focused, demanding that 'Action' buttons to simply read "click ...
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How little is too little padding between button text and its button border?
jQuery has a default amount of padding within their buttons, as seen here: jQuery UI - Button Demo.
I think it looks nice, but my boss keeps telling me to kill the padding. Specifically, he said to ...
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Is a cancel button really needed in a form in a page?
I have a form, which is on a page of its own - it's a huge one, and one of the internal reviewers recommended to add a cancel button to it. I am just trying to figure out if a cancel button is ...
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App icons borderless or on a button?
In an app, when using icons, we can have place it on a button, or have the icon borderless. I would think that having it on a button gives better affordance, but it seems that many reputable ...
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If input text length is known, do I really need a submit button?
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On a mobile device a user is improving her math skills using a native app (Windows Phone). There are many expressions being calculated in a series and the user is trying to get 10 correct ...
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Form design and placement of action buttons
This question involves a data entry form in a web application. The form will be
used in a desktop environment only; there's no need to account for mobile.
A single user of this web app could be ...
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Is it a good idea to put the word "or" between buttons on a screen
If I have a dialog to display to the user it has a data item displayed, and 2 seperate actions that can be done to the object. So, it's a resource and we want the user to choose which process they ...
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Order of physical controls: volume down, volume up, mute
My speaker has 3 physical buttons in this order:
volume down
volume up
mute
I find the order quite illogical, I would expect:
volume up
volume down
mute
Is there any convention on the order of ...
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Where should a UIButton be to add cells to a tableView?
I have a limited amount of space in a new options menu I designed (much like a combination of twitter's scrollViewTexturedBackGround colored table, with notification center's custom headers, and ...
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Share Buttons on Landing Page -- Where to place them?
I've been reading up on share buttons in terms of placement, effectiveness, use, etc. However, the vast majority of resources are directed at blogs and other content oriented sites -- in fact, I haven'...
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Toolbar of digital signatures
Where I work, we have one of our systems in a web viewer for PDF files signed with the extension ". P7s."
We are doing a toolbar similar to the adobe reader (picture below). The panel is also of ...
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Do pull down buttons confuse users about the actions they perform?
Pull down buttons (if that's their official name) are starting to pop up here and there. For example, if you look at Eclipse it seems that almost everything is a pull down button. Personally I find ...
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Combine load and save button into one button?
I'm having a configuration GUI, and want to enable the user to export the settings into a file and load that file later (or on a different computer).
My dialog has several options, and is rather small:...
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Facebook Like button too intruding? [closed]
Does anybody feel the Facebook Like button is too intruding in ones UI? Like it doesn't fit in, like it's some cheap plastic thing?
Have anybody ever used JS or something to make any alternatives ...
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Is a cancel button necessary in a windows form?
After reading the question "Is a cancel button necessary for a web form?", I still ask myself, whether the same applies to a Windows form/dialog box.
Consider the following dialog box:
Compared to ...
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Save/Cancel/Close button behavior question
The attached image shows a dialog with a save/cancel button bank and a "x" icon to close the dialog. The question I have is this. Should the cancel button even be on the modal if it does not clear/...
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When is it okay to hide actions until triggered by a rollover event?
I'm having a hard time articulating to my team what doesn't sit right with me on this design. Here is one of our prototypes:
http://50.56.241.135/prototype/pin/feed_unsubscribe.html
For one thing, ...
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Can you see a good reason to remove the plus sign in Google Chrome's create tab button?
I am talking about this button:
The plus sign that used to be on that button has been removed in recent versions.
I am very intrigued as to why they might have found it convenient.
I'm a google-...
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Is it a problem to have a link to 'View Your Basket' and 'Go To Checkout' that both go to the same place?
I have an eComm site i'm specing at the moment. When you add stuff to the basket the on-page basket at the top of the page will update to give you a running total with links to view the full basket as ...
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Price plan table with multiple payment options
I have a pricing plan table with multiple payment options. I'm not sure whether it is best to place the pricing options in a drop-down (and fire off the submit on the "onchange" event) or simply have ...
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Should the results of a calculation happen automatically, or require a button push?
This is a problem I've ran into several times, and I imagine that others have ran across it too.
Basically, I have a complicated equation, and I want the user to type in the values needed to ...
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How long should a press-and-hold-button action be?
How long should a button need to be pushed in order to indicate "this is a press and hold action rather than a simple press"?
E.g., to unlock the OSD of my Dell monitor, I have to
Press and hold ...
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How to avoid "hover and cover" on buttons at the end of a form?
I'm working on an apparently simple interface: 2 input fields right above a series of action buttons. Each button represents a different way to perform the same task (for example wizard, upload a ...
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How would you handle two separate "save" buttons for different sections on the same page?
I notice on this particular page in Basecamp that they have two different buttons that are meant to save changes to two different sections. One section is above the fold and clearly has a "save ...
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How should I indicate an added row of buttons above the iPad's keyboard is scrollable?
In my iOS app, I have an extra toolbar that appears above the keyboard, using the same style of buttons as the keyboard. This toolbar is horizontally scrollable.
Currently, in all devices and ...
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How does a 3d shading impact circular button use?
I recently ran across a circular smiley icon with lambertian shading, specular shading, and cast shadows. The effect was a little like a ball on a table.
Here it is:
Clicking the icon toggled an on/...
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Ideal location for a donate button?
I am working on a website for a non profit and they anticipate the need to have a donate button in the near future.In that context,I was revisiting the site architecture and I was wondering about ...
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Correct terminology for that circle/bubble with number of notifications in it?
Some applications will overlay some colored bubble/circle with a number to show how many unread messages/notifications or "things to do" are currently available. For instance, it's on Skype to show ...
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How Can Buttons Be Used Even When Lightboxes Are Activated?
We have a Help button in the header of our product, directly next to the Log Out button.
We also have modal lightboxes that, when activated, grey-out the buttons in the header, even though they are ...
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Should I provide feedback from a save button?
I'm currently in the process of developing a Windows Application which produces Word Documents.
In the program there is the ability to save your progress (different to the "Save as a Word ...
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Do android users press the menu button?
I want to add a new function to my android application, but am a little bit confused in deciding where exactly to display the functionality.
I can either show it as a button in the application or add ...
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funnel or checklist icon [closed]
I am looking for an icon to act as filter button (which on click will show a box with the filter options)
So I've seen a couple of results on google for filter icon and I've only seen by now funnels ...
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Which color for a "Pay now" button?
I know there is no such thing as one good color that can be universally accepted, but I've been told orange is the "right color" for the payment button, and it is notable to see how both Paypal and ...
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Right call to action buttons vs left call to action buttons?
I read this interesting article which talks about the Gutenberg principle of a terminal area as being the most appropriate location to place a call to action button to enhance conversions.Simply put
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Appropriate Icon for "Load" Button? [closed]
I'm tasked with redoing part of the UI in one of our desktop applications. I've specifically been asked to replace a "Load" button with an icon. Are there any conventions for this style of icon? ...
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On mobile phones why is the green (call) button at the left and red (hang) button at the right side?
Some old mobile phones have switched position of green/red buttons.
Currently the green button is at the left and red button is at the right side on mobile phones.
Why? That is rationale? Which ...
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Choosing between a default option and an occasional alternative action
I have an Outlook macro at work which pops up a panel every time you send an email, asking whether you'd like to file that email into various public folders. This is useful and we use it all the time ...
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What's the Best Placement for Save/Cancel Buttons on Very Long Forms?
I have a big project creation form having atleast having 30-40 fields where i have already grouped the relevant fields as a set(splitting into 3 columns) with proper headers, but still i have a long ...
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Are Flat Buttons Unusable?
What is your experience with the usability of flat buttons? The common critique against those buttons is that people can't distinguish them, and they only look like headlines with a background. But ...
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