How Button Placement Standards Reinforce User Habits

“It doesn’t matter where it’s placed as long as it’s there.” This is how many who don’t understand user experience think about buttons. In UX, every detail matters, especially button placement.

Buttons work like door knobs. People wouldn’t be able to use doors efficiently if door knobs weren’t placed in a consistent area. But because they are, everyone with a hand can walk through doors without much thought. The placement standard of door knobs across doors creates an unconscious habit in people.

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