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

spectrum.ieee.org
2024-11-26T00:57:57.750Z
tech gadgets buttons cars

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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.

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Tech companies are clamoring to re-buttonize their products

www.usermag.co
2024-11-26T00:56:58.822Z
buttons gadgets devices tech

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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.”

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X-Mouse Button Control

www.highrez.co.uk
2023-02-09T22:04:31.000Z
mouse windows buttons imported:pinboard

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

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Ladda

lab.hakim.se
2013-06-14T15:42:55.000Z
webdev ui design buttons css imported:pinboard

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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.

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You can’t create a button | NCZOnline

www.nczonline.net
2013-06-04T18:20:00.000Z
webdev links buttons html js accessibility imported:pinboard

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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?

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ignore the code: Buttons

ignorethecode.net
2012-09-04T16:53:41.000Z
webdev ui design buttons clappers to:fb imported:pinboard

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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.

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

www.zurb.com
2010-10-14T00:48:07.000Z
webdev css buttons web20 imported:pinboard

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Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element

particletree.com
2007-05-23T00:23:35.000Z
html webdev buttons css imported:pinboard

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"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

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

www.historyofthebutton.com
2006-12-06T15:33:47.000Z
buttons cheese free awesome imported:pinboard

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

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TechEBlog ‽ USB Self Destruct Button Hands-On

www.techeblog.com
2006-08-09T14:10:05.000Z
wishlist usb selfdestruct buttons hardware imported:pinboard

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"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"

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History of the Button

www.historyofthebutton.com
2006-07-06T11:53:23.000Z
buttons nifty history design imported:pinboard

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

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