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5 Best Practices for Designing Effective Buttons
Buttons are important elements in creating a smooth conversation.
To me, a great designer is someone who has enough experience to make practical decisions. And someone who knows how to design intuitive products. I aspire to be someone like this.
So I try to learn and update my knowledge every step of the way.
In terms of designing a button, a few basic practices have proven to be effective so far. The main point is all about knowing what catches attention and inspires users’ to take action.
There are 5 best practices that I would love to share with you.
1. Explain buttons with what they do
How do you design your Cancel and OK buttons? How do they play smoothly in the interaction design?
They are primary action buttons that play a key role in creating an effortless conversational flow with any device you have.
Thus, what matters the most is what clearly means these crucial action buttons. There should always be something self-explanatory, like an image or some text.
And the Cancel button should never grab attention. It doesn’t make changes to the system and usually brings users back to their previous screen.
