Web Design Theory: Feedback on buttons

In our lives, we need to touch a lot of items with mechanical buttons. When you press the key with your finger. Will either be strong or weak to feel a share (well, also may be a trace of silk) reaction to the nerve endings of your fingers. This is a complete feedback process.

We take the key frame of the process from the start to the down to simulate.

Figure 1

In software, the m$ company's buttons in Windows system simulate this kind of feedback, which not only increases the user's satisfaction, but also gives the user a clearer sense of how he is operating.

Figure 2

In many do software companies in the GUI basic specifications are required to do more than the state (most of the three-state majority) of the button, hardware manufacturers have also introduced a number of force feedback game equipment. And in the touch-screen system. There are also many applications, such as immersion, which specializes in touch-screen and tactile feedback technology, and is also used on many touch-screen handsets.

Fig. 3 Immersion Technology Show

We evaluate a keyboard in our life when it feels bad, usually we call it hard to handle.
And in our Internet products, some of them follow the Windows button. Of course, more buttons for visual aesthetic considerations on the line to beautify. That's the drop. Basically belong to very "hard" button, press up won't change.

Figure 4, some button screenshots

Go back to Figure 1. If we tell him by the visual change of the button. Yes, you pressed the button. Would it be better?
Although did not say must be in the webpage button must do so. But it's a better thing to have more clear and detailed feedback.

extended reading : Reaction Immersion company touch Feedback Technology