Bring the data forward

From the time you make your morning toast, to setting your thermostat, to starting your car, to paying for your coffee, to crunching an Excel report, to opening your garage door, to browsing Netflix, to setting your dishwasher, and to brushing your teeth, we engage with products hundreds of times a day. Many of the microinteractions we engage with are often invisible. 

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Making buttons better with subtle tactile feedback

A simple concept to make a button "better" is to shift it down by 1px when it's clicked. This is not a new concept, in fact Chris Coyer wrote about it all the way back in 2010.

"Better" is of course a subjective attribute. Typically, websites employ various ":active" states for buttons, such as:

  • Darkening the button background color
  • Adding a highlight border color
  • Using the default 'outline' glow
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