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Re: Stolen Buttons

#101

Post by LeoPanthera »

When did we stop making buttons that actually look like a button?

The bas-relief era of UI design now feels like a golden era, and the early "Aqua" versions of Mac OS X the ultimate evolution.

Everything since then feels like we're regressing.

The "add comment" button for this comment is literally a solid blue roundrect. It's not even obvious that it's clickable.

Re: Stolen Buttons

#105

Post by dymk »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #101

When did we stop making buttons that actually look like a button? The bas-relief era of UI design now feels like a golden era, and the early "Aqua" versions of Mac OS X the ultimate evolution. Everything since then feels like we're regressing. The "add comment" button for this comment is literally a solid blue roundrect. It's not even obvious that it's clickable.

What a button look like to you? Blue roundrect sure says button to me.

Re: Stolen Buttons

#106

Post by wolpoli »

nielssp wrote: post #29
binaryturtle wrote: post #13

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

I have always felt that the button in the last couple version of Windows was a bit off. This page confirms it: Old school buttons used to stay in a "selected" state after being pressed, but that was not implemented in Windows 8's new UI.

Re: Stolen Buttons

#107

Post by jerf »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #101

When did we stop making buttons that actually look like a button? The bas-relief era of UI design now feels like a golden era, and the early "Aqua" versions of Mac OS X the ultimate evolution. Everything since then feels like we're regressing. The "add comment" button for this comment is literally a solid blue roundrect. It's not even obvious that it's clickable.

Even better, how about those capacitive buttons that look like computer buttons in the real world, only even less visually distinct, and have absolutely no force feedback, depressing motion, or any other feedback whatsoever that you've pressed an actual button?

In other news, though, I believe the HN button is just an HTML button, with a touch of font styling on it from HN. Linux on a Chrome-descended browser I'm just getting a grey box with a black outline, no 3D styling. It's not styled that way by HN. Everything else in the CSS properties for me is showing as "user agent stylesheet", e.g., the defaults.

Re: Stolen Buttons

#108

Post by hmry »

nielssp wrote: post #29
binaryturtle wrote: post #13

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

Awesome, the Haiku one is my favorite

Re: Stolen Buttons

#110

Post by makapuf »

binaryturtle wrote: post #13

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. :)

Exactly, and more broadly ALL of them are a variation of bgcolor + border-radius + padding + font (type, size). No funky shape, borders, FX, 3D / relief or even shadow, pixels... Every single one is a flat, round borders.
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