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People older than 30 grew up filling in paper forms for everything and know check boxes well. Younger people are less familiar with check boxes, so the best re

• jeroenhd 4y ago
  I don't think light switches are a good analogy. My light switches don't turn green or red when I flip them and I don't need to slide them either. Furthermore, many light switches only toggle the state of the light because it's common enough to have multiple switches hooked up to the same light source. The only analogy I can think of is the physical slider built into some smartphones for sound on/off. I don't think toggle sliders are common at all these days.
• _dain_ 4y ago
  >Younger people are less familiar with check boxes I get that people fill out paper forms less than they used to, but give the younger generation some credit here. It's not like we live in a Star Trek future world where paper is an antique curiosity. It's still alive and well in schools, for example, lockdowns notwithstanding. I'm 100% sure they still know how to tick a box, be it by pen or by mouseclick or tapping a touchscreen. For my part, I only recently learned that "radio buttons" were named after an actual kind of button that existed on old fashioned radios. I never encountered such radios as a kid, but I had no trouble at all using radio buttons in computer UIs. There are only so many ways to make a button.