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Stolen Buttons

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Re: Stolen Buttons

#71

I may have missed one by looking at this huge dump, but NONE of the "buttons" I saw there actually looked/felt like a button. Something I can feel that I press it down and it gives proper visual feedback, like a little 3D effect. I'm old-school. :)

Apple and Jony Ive killed skeuomorph design a long time ago.

Re: Stolen Buttons

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post #68

Button components across major component galleries: https://component.gallery/components/button/

Interesting site. As a non-Web developer, I've vaguely wondered about the various frameworks and where the "look and feel" that I see on different sites' user controls come from. This be will fun to explore.

Re: Stolen Buttons

#73
post #29

I may have missed one by looking at this huge dump, but NONE of the "buttons" I saw there actually looked/felt like a button. Something I can feel that I press it down and it gives proper visual feedback, like a little 3D effect. I'm old-school. :)

You might like this: https://nielssp.dk/guis/buttons

Ooh, nice! This very much appeals to the historian and former GUI developer in me.

Update: The Pixel Perfect checkbox makes a noticeable difference in appearance. I presume this is because older systems were developed before the advent of anti-aliasing, and were designed pixel by pixel.

Re: Stolen Buttons

#74
post #29

I may have missed one by looking at this huge dump, but NONE of the "buttons" I saw there actually looked/felt like a button. Something I can feel that I press it down and it gives proper visual feedback, like a little 3D effect. I'm old-school. :)

You might like this: https://nielssp.dk/guis/buttons

Oh wow, that was so cathartic. Thank you for sharing.

Re: Stolen Buttons

#77
There's a Chrome Extension he made based on this: https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons/button-stealer

I used it for a bit until I realized... I probably didn't want a third party reading all my traffic. But I did like having it for a bit.

(It is linked from the page, but given how the whole page is CTAs... it's hard to notice!)

Re: Stolen Buttons

#79

I may have missed one by looking at this huge dump, but NONE of the "buttons" I saw there actually looked/felt like a button. Something I can feel that I press it down and it gives proper visual feedback, like a little 3D effect. I'm old-school. :)

It sounds like you're talking about the "gloss" era with "juicy" buttons, which some people are retroactively referring to as Frutiger Aero. Yes, things definitely look more 3D in that design. It's currently considered out of mainstream fashion, which explains the lack. Will it resurge?

Enter "Lickable Pixels" -- the phrase that described the Aqua era.

Introducing Mac OS X's Aqua interface, Steve Jobs said at Macworld in January 2000: "We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)

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