Creating a Visual Language
October 25th, 2007 | Published in Blogroll, CSS, Code Development, Developer, HTML
Amazon has a clear visual language for shopping-related buttons. (Figure 1) While the buttons vary in size, color, text, and iconography, they clearly share enough of the design elements that the variety enhances their purpose rather than complicating it.
- Color
- Iconography
- Context & Flexibility
- Copywriting
Worth reading if you do things like buttons and pretty things in your work. I tend not too, I’m the guy who builds the pigs I don’t put the lipstick on them 
(Via Garrett Dimon.)
