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Buttons are among the most common interactive elements in the user interface. What’s more, they are important for building strong relationships and good user experience. Today, as the collection of UI/UX glossary articles continues, we have compiled here meanings and explanations for the commonly common forms of buttons that we see on websites and smartphone applications every day. Want to learn about graphic design and UX UI design in depth? Join Blue Sky Graphics online graphic design course today!
Importance of Buttons in UI
The button is an interactive feature that allows you to get the expected interactive input from the device using a specific order. Basically, a button is a control that enables the consumer to interact directly with the digital product and to deliver the appropriate instructions in order to accomplish a specific objective. It could be a mission, for example, to submit an email, purchase a product, download any data or a piece of material, switch on the player and a lot of other potential activities. One of the reasons buttons are so common and user-friendly is that they effectively mimic interactions with artefacts in the real environment.
Modern UI buttons are very diverse and may support a number of purposes. Typical and commonly used buttons that show an interactive zone, normally specifically marked for visibility and with a specific geometric shape, and sometimes accompanied with a copy specifying what action is to be carried out using this button. Designers must use a tremendous amount of time and effort to produce powerful and visible buttons that are naturally incorporated into the general stylistic concept, but are contrasting enough to stand out in the style.
Button for CTA
The Call-to-Action (CTA) button is an interactive component of a user interface designed to encourage a user to take action. This behaviour presents a conversion towards a single website or screen (e.g., order, contact, subscribe, etc.), in other words, transforms a passive consumer into an active user. So functionally, it can be any kind of button that is enabled by an action text call. What makes it different from all the other buttons on the website or computer is its attractive nature: it has to attract interest and encourage users to take the necessary action.
This is the home page of an e-commerce website offering children’s books. At the featured slide, one main operation is set as the target of the page: to get a person to add to the mailing list sharing. So, the button is designed as one of the most visible aspects of the layout so that the consumer can easily see how to perform the action as soon as he or she is ready to do it.
Drop-down button
When you press it, the drop-down button shows a selection of mutually exclusive objects. In the settings press, you will sometimes come across this kind. When the user selects one of the choices in the set, it is typically identified as active, for example by colour.
HealthCare App Interaction Flow displays the buttons that open the collection of details that the doctor will apply to the bill: when the button is pressed, the drop-down list of choices is opened. As soon as you pick one, the large button will vanish, leaving the selected choice and the tiny plus button if you want to search the list again.
Hamburger button
This is the button that hides the menu. When you press or select, the menu would be expanded. This kind of menu (and button as well) has such a reputation because of its shape made up of three horizontal lines that look like a traditional bread-meat-bread hamburger. Today, it is a commonly used interactive feature in web and smartphone layouts; the debates regarding its pros and cons are still hot.
Active internet surfers who frequent multiple websites on a daily basis realise by now that this button masks separate types of website material such that this trick does not need more clarification and prompts. What’s cool, hamburger menus open up room and make the design more minimalist and airy; from a performance point of view, it saves a lot of space for other essential layout features. Additional advantages for flexible and adaptive design can be listed, hiding navigation functions and having the app appear harmonic on various platforms.
Plus Button
As pressed or tapped, the plus button allows the user to introduce any additional material to the device. Depending on the form of app, there could be a new message, address, place, notice, object in the list-anything that is a simple operation for a digital product. Often, by pressing this icon, users are immediately moved to the modal content creation window; in other situations, there is often a medium stage where additional choices are provided to select from and render content additions more oriented.
Expendable Button
This button unlocks a broad selection of choices after pressing or tapping. This is another way to set the proper flow of connections without overloading the screen, which is especially essential for mobile interfaces constrained in screen size.
Share Button
With the high visibility of social networks, texting and emailing, these buttons make it easier to add app or website material to your social accounts. The button of this kind allows users to post material or achievements directly with social networking accounts. In order to make the relation transparent, the symbols are shown that have the mark of a specific social network and are clearly identifiable. Very frequently today, if sharing is not the main behaviour requested from the consumer on the website, it’s not labelled as buttons (no extra forms, colour markings, underlining, etc.) – you only see the icons, so they’re interactive. Such a method promotes minimalism and the optimal usage of negative space. It often helps users to focus on the core features, but still see indicators of swift access to their social profiles.
Here is a sleek and streamlined business website for the building business. You can see the business social accounts indicators at the lower left of the home screen. They are clearly accessible but well-balanced so as not to detract from the main navigation and the CTA icon.
Ghost Button
The Ghost button is a clear, empty-looking button. That’s why it’s sometimes named “flat,” “hollow,” or “naked.” Its visual recognition as a button is usually presented with a form bordered by a very thin line across the copy button. This type of button tends to set the visual hierarchy where there are many CTA elements: the main CTA is presented in a filled button while the secondary (still active) is seen in a ghost button.
