Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
When using a site which turns the cursor to the link-style cursor when hovering over a button, I would tend to assume that it wasn't a button (which causes an action [2]) but a hyperlink (which merely causes navigation) styled to look like a button. Links and buttons aren't the same thing, in terms of the fundamental principles of UI design, which is why they give different feedback.
I am not attempting to discredit these distinctions, which bear a lot of relevance; but I strongly doubt the notion that distinctions down to this level (some are indeed needed, and nobody here is suggesting that buttons be indistinguishable from links) are of vital importance to users.
Conceive of a persona who is not a read-up fan of Apple's UI recommendations (my target audience, incidentally). Are they going to hover their cursor over a button, see it turn into a hand, and get baffled? I very much doubt it. In fact I think it would elucidate the functionality of the button.
Action as opposed to navigation is an important difference, and I make it visible. The cursor, in my mind, has no bearing on this difference.
I don't think I'm flippant in thinking that this is standardisation gone mad.
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