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Rules for labelling Buttons

Caroline Jarrett writes about her two rules of labelling butttons:

  1. 'Label the button with what it does.'
  2. 'If the user doesn't want to do it, don't have a button for it.'

Here's something I find hard to explain to clients:

"The consequence of the two rules may be that you end up with buttons with labels that are longer than a single word. I think that's much better than striving for single words that are either confusing or infuriating..."

Thanks infodesign

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