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Can you pick out a brand just by their button design?

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Re: Can you pick out a brand just by their button design?

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Post by jacalata »

SeanLuke wrote: post #20

> Buttons can make or break your brand. Buttons can be your sites most recognizable brand element besides your logo. A well designed, unique button style can be the key to establishing and maintaining trust in your site. Well, I had absolutely no idea on any of the buttons. So I'm: > 0 - Congrats. you’re normal, not an internet nerd like the rest of us. Perhaps that should be better written as: > 0 - Congrats, you ar…

Same, I got 0. Even after he mentioned amazon, I went back and looked and couldn't see anything that made me think of amazon. For context, I visit amazon maybe once a week.

Re: Can you pick out a brand just by their button design?

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Post by aaronsnoswell »

SeanLuke wrote: post #20

> Buttons can make or break your brand. Buttons can be your sites most recognizable brand element besides your logo. A well designed, unique button style can be the key to establishing and maintaining trust in your site. Well, I had absolutely no idea on any of the buttons. So I'm: > 0 - Congrats. you’re normal, not an internet nerd like the rest of us. Perhaps that should be better written as: > 0 - Congrats, you ar…

I also couldn't guess any of them.

Re: Can you pick out a brand just by their button design?

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Post by dpup »

jstanley wrote: post #9

It's a shame the buttons are in JPEG form. I can barely see past the artifacts. EDIT: Incidentally, I got 8. There were only 9 services that I have ever used, so I don't think that's too bad. Are there really that many people who have used all of those services?

Medium Dev here, this is our fault. We convert images to JPEG when sizing and cropping, this obviously doesn't work well for vector style graphics.

We didn't want people to have to wait for a 500K PNG when a 60K JPEG would work for most cases. But, I think we'll probably make a change soon to keep the format the same as whatever it was uploaded with.

Re: Can you pick out a brand just by their button design?

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Post by keyboardP »

dpup wrote: post #23
jstanley wrote: post #9

It's a shame the buttons are in JPEG form. I can barely see past the artifacts. EDIT: Incidentally, I got 8. There were only 9 services that I have ever used, so I don't think that's too bad. Are there really that many people who have used all of those services?

Medium Dev here, this is our fault. We convert images to JPEG when sizing and cropping, this obviously doesn't work well for vector style graphics. We didn't want people to have to wait for a 500K PNG when a 60K JPEG would work for most cases. But, I think we'll probably make a change soon to keep the format the same as whatever it was uploaded with.

I use PNG Monster for very good lossless PNG compression http://www.vbgore.com/PNG_Monster Might be worth testing to see if it can reduce the sizes to an acceptable level.

Re: Can you pick out a brand just by their button design?

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Post by Leszek »

jacalata wrote: post #21
SeanLuke wrote: post #20

> Buttons can make or break your brand. Buttons can be your sites most recognizable brand element besides your logo. A well designed, unique button style can be the key to establishing and maintaining trust in your site. Well, I had absolutely no idea on any of the buttons. So I'm: > 0 - Congrats. you’re normal, not an internet nerd like the rest of us. Perhaps that should be better written as: > 0 - Congrats, you ar…

Same, I got 0. Even after he mentioned amazon, I went back and looked and couldn't see anything that made me think of amazon. For context, I visit amazon maybe once a week.

Also the same. I could sort of recognise the Amazon one once I knew which one it was, but even then I wasn't 100% sure.
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