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Basically a fun QA test. Even if you disagree with what's "correct", being able to notice and articulate why something is off is a valuable skill.

The only only subjective ones I disagreed with were about tracking. With one I preferred more spacing, and the other I preferred less.

People complaining about dark patterns with buttons are missing the point. More than one colored button is bad with all current design. Whether you disagree with the other option being plain text is besides the point.



>People complaining about dark patterns with buttons are missing the point. More than one colored button is bad with all current design.

I think you might be missing the point honestly.

Making all buttons to look like buttons is a design choice I like. I would even venture so far as calling it objectively good design from a usability standpoint. People may disagree.

Opinions about how many colors should be in buttons are in any case highly subjective.


More than one button styled as the default button is objectively bad because there cannot be more than one default button.


Perhaps the problem is the concept of a default button. The practical application for it is simply to push the user to the company preferred path rather than provide a choice.

In any case if one button is the more common choice it can be indicated by position or by a more subtle way than making it appear like there is only one button.


Multiple colored buttons may be incorrect, but dark patterns are even more so.




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