I want to try to step out of my role for a moment and think about it from a
user's perspective:
To me the button separation seems rather arbitrary in most current
use-cases, that I've seen so far. If it's a multistep dialog/action
connected, will the user understand that after using the green button
several times and therefore finish his task more easily? If a multi-step
action is needed, there's common agreement
<http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/9/what-can-be-done-to-make-a-long-multi-step-wizard-more-user-friendly>,
that
- possibly saving user's inputs at every step to be able to go back and
forth,
- give feedback of *where they are* in the process and
- how many steps are left to accomplish the task.
Providing different button colors between the steps and providing one at
the final step doesn't provide much feedback and it's hard to grasp without
explaining it upfront and in-detail.
As we're already providing primary buttons and secondary ("neutral")
buttons, I think we should consolidate the two different primary
(progressive & constructive) ones in order to give user's a clearer focus
on what's the primary action to get "bigger" tasks done.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
One problem I have run into recently is that for a
complex form you are
not necessarily able to tell which step is the last. E.g. after you submit
the login form and MediaWiki verifies your credentials, depending on your
user settings you might or might not be presented with a two-factor
challenge; so submitting the user name and password might or might not be
the last step of the form. (Arguably login should not be constructive in
the first place, but it is now. In any case, similar problems could be
present with the user registration form, which does create something.)
Personally, I agree with Bartosz that having four button types (five or
more if we include silent buttons) just makes the interface confusing.
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