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Tactile Controls: Why Buttons Are Making a Comeback - IEEE Spectrum

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:57:57 +0000

When I’m driving, it’s actually unsafe for my car to be operated in that way. It’s hard to generalize and say, buttons are always easy and good, and touchscreens are difficult and bad, or vice versa. Buttons tend to offer you a really limited range of possibilities in terms of what you can do. Maybe that simplicity of limiting our field of choices offers more safety in certain situations.

Tags: #buttons #cars #gadgets #tech

Tech companies are clamoring to re-buttonize their products

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:56:58 +0000

The WSJ has been on the button beat for a while. In a 2023 piece titled What Our Phones, Cars and Refrigerators Need: More Buttons, writer Nicole Nguyen detailed the challenges of touch screen interfaces being deployed in kitchen objects. After a pot of water boiled over on her induction stove, she was unable to turn down the burner because the touch screen has gotten wet. “I rage poked,” she wrote, “where a simple knob would have sufficed.”

Tags: #buttons #devices #gadgets #tech

X-Mouse Button Control

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 22:04:31 +0000

X-Mouse Button Control is a free tool for Windows that allows you to re-configure and expand the capabilities of your mouse.

Tags: #buttons #imported:pinboard #mouse #windows

Ladda

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:42:55 +0000

A UI concept which merges loading indicators into the action that invoked them. Primarily intended for use with forms where it gives users immediate feedback upon submit rather than leaving them wondering while the browser does its thing. For a real-world example, check out any of the forms on slid.es.

Tags: #buttons #css #design #imported:pinboard #ui #webdev

Ladda

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:42:55 +0000

Tags: #buttons #css #design #ui #webdev

You can’t create a button | NCZOnline

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:20:00 +0000

Unfortunately, sometimes web developers try to get a bit too clever in creating their interfaces. What if I want something to look like a link but act like a button?

Tags: #accessibility #buttons #html #imported:pinboard #js #links #webdev

You can’t create a button | NCZOnline

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:20:00 +0000

Unfortunately, sometimes web developers try to get a bit too clever in creating their interfaces. What if I want something to look like a link but act like a button?

Tags: #accessibility #buttons #html #js #links #webdev

ignore the code: Buttons

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:53:41 +0000

But buttons are discoverable. They can have labels that describe what they do. Everybody knows how to use them. They just work. It’s why we use them to turn on the lights, instead of installing Clappers everywhere.

Tags: #buttons #clappers #design #imported:pinboard #to:fb #ui #webdev

ignore the code: Buttons

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:53:41 +0000

Tags: #buttons #clappers #design #to:fb #ui #webdev

Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBa - ZURB Playground - ZURB.com

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:48:07 +0000

Tags: #buttons #css #web20 #webdev

Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element

Wed, 23 May 2007 00:23:35 +0000

"Creating a consistent interface for your users is a constant struggle for every application designer. Building consistency on the web is especially tough because the visual rendering differences across browsers and operating systems are wildly different

Tags: #buttons #css #html #webdev

History of the Button ? Blog Archive ? Push for free cheese

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:33:47 +0000

"One of the simplest and most satisfying buttons ever."

Tags: #awesome #buttons #cheese #free

TechEBlog ‽ USB Self Destruct Button Hands-On

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:10:05 +0000

"It has all the keys, switches, and buttons you’ve come to expect from modern self-destruct buttons, adding the power of four USB ports for extra practicality"

Tags: #buttons #hardware #selfdestruct #usb #wishlist

History of the Button

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:53:23 +0000

"Tracing the history of interaction design, software/web design and the future of environmental design through the humble button."

Tags: #buttons #design #history #nifty