> The word haptic existed long before touch screens and capacitive buttons. What else could it have been used for then?
Haptic is anything having to do with touch, it's not specifically feedback (although you can tune the haptic feedback of physical devices as well). A handshake is haptic communication for instance.
> They need to be specified precisely because today buttons that don't have any haptic feedback exists.
Again, that's not the case of physical buttons. So you have three categories of buttons:
- physical
- virtual (non-haptic)
- virtual (haptic)
You don't need to specify that a physical button is haptic, it is that by definition. You can discuss the haptic properties (UX) of different kinds of buttons or physical controls, but that's not the subject here.
Well then maybe we should avoid the term haptic button. I've definitely seen it refer to physical buttons. It wouldn't be wrong to use the term to refer to either, even if it's technically pointless for physical buttons, and I guess that's why people do it when it comes to the physical vs touch debate, to emphasize that specific property of a physical button.
Haptic is anything having to do with touch, it's not specifically feedback (although you can tune the haptic feedback of physical devices as well). A handshake is haptic communication for instance.
> They need to be specified precisely because today buttons that don't have any haptic feedback exists.
Again, that's not the case of physical buttons. So you have three categories of buttons:
- physical
- virtual (non-haptic)
- virtual (haptic)
You don't need to specify that a physical button is haptic, it is that by definition. You can discuss the haptic properties (UX) of different kinds of buttons or physical controls, but that's not the subject here.