Sunday, September 6, 2015

affordance - Whether to use pointer (hand) over a button or just the default cursor


Gmail uses the pointer on mouse over of a button,


Gamil Search Button


while many of other websites uses a hand


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So I am wondering which kind of cursor is more friendly to users (on web applications), or it just doesn't matter?



Answer



Google has added this differing in hovering feedback to make a visual distinction between navigational elements and action elements in the UI. It's really to distinguish the semantics between actions like Compose a new mail and Open email.


So that is basically the strategy behind the behaviour. The reason however, how they feel that this will improve the user experience, I'm not really sure of.



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