There needs to be some way to show what is tappable but I don’t think that making all that look like buttons is necessary. If you look around iOS (especially on

There needs to be some way to show what is tappable but I don’t think that making all that look like buttons is necessary. If you look around iOS (especially on the iPhone or iPod touch) you will see that very few tappable elements actually do look like buttons, they don’t have to. Only potentially risky actions are brightly colored and look like buttons, for example “Send” or “Delete”. I would argue that it wouldn’t matter much if you were to ditch the gradients and shadows and just go with bright colors and rounded corners.