Comments on: Redesign: BrightKite.com “Approve Request” buttons http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/web-design/redesign-brightkitecom-approve-request-buttons web standards, usability & other girly stuff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:29:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dmitry http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/web-design/redesign-brightkitecom-approve-request-buttons/comment-page-1#comment-100096 Dmitry Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:14:00 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/?p=635#comment-100096 Very nice redesign. The logic of putting the buttons on the right was probably to make them stand out from the rest of the content — so if you wanted to quickly approve friends you can easily locate all the buttons because they're away from content like that. Your design is definitely more logical though and flows nicer. I like the idea of differentiating approve and ignore. What you could also do is make them both anchors and use custom button graphics or just a padded link background with two different background colors — green for approve and red for ignore. That would make it even clearer.. though it's probably an overkill. Very nice redesign. The logic of putting the buttons on the right was probably to make them stand out from the rest of the content — so if you wanted to quickly approve friends you can easily locate all the buttons because they’re away from content like that. Your design is definitely more logical though and flows nicer.

I like the idea of differentiating approve and ignore. What you could also do is make them both anchors and use custom button graphics or just a padded link background with two different background colors — green for approve and red for ignore. That would make it even clearer.. though it’s probably an overkill.

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