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Big pet peeve: Web apps where some buttons look like buttons and some buttons look like links. Everything that initiates an action of some sort should look the
by dheera 6y ago
Big pet peeve: Web apps where some buttons look like buttons and some buttons look like links. Everything that initiates an action of some sort should look the same, damnit.
- runarberg 6y agoI see your point, and used to share it. But recently I’ve worked with professional designers that use this pattern quite a lot and my mind is now changed. For example I see nothing wrong with a link to e.g. a creation form looks like a button, nor is nothing wrong with a destructive action to have the lower visual weight of a link (e.g. delete this repo; flag this comment; etc.).
- josephwegner 6y ago_Looks awkwardly at the HN "flag" button_
- dredmorbius 6y agoThat ship has flown on some very long legs.
- dmitriid 6y agoI give you one of the biggest abusers: Google's Material Design, https://material.io https://material.io Each design iteration of that page keeps using buttons for links, links for buttons, links that look like plain text etc.
- thitcanh 6y agoKinda, but there’s no way a “Contact us” call-to-action in the middle of a hero is going to look acceptable as a plain underlined blue text. Some links need to be boxed and that makes them look like buttons. Not a lot of wiggle room there.