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The buttons do highlight when you move over them, so it's entirely clear if you hit them if you would click. Or is that not what you mean by the 'affordances' o
by w0utert 6y ago
The buttons do highlight when you move over them, so it's entirely clear if you hit them if you would click. Or is that not what you mean by the 'affordances' of these buttons?
- shard 6y agoAh then that would mitigate the issue a bit. It would obviously be better for pointe targeting purposes if the button edges are visible ahead of time so that users know where it's acceptable for their pointers to land, but having them show up when the pointer hovers over them would help some.
- paulmooreparks 6y agoThis means the user has to roll the mouse around to discover what's clickable. That's not usable, it's frustrating.
- w0utert 6y agoIn the case of the tool buttons in macOS windows my feeling is that this is really is splitting hairs. Literally everything that is not the same color as the toolbar itself is clickable. The frustration or the supposed 'cognitive overload' is purely theoretical.