Designing Good Buttons

This article gives 5 tips – some of them I agree with and some I heavily disagree with.

I agree with four tips: using action verbs, using precise diction, using the action imperative form, and using sentence-style capitalization. All of the tips and reasonings make a lot of sense. I wholeheartedly agree with them. Especially using action verbs – it makes the article much easier to read.

However, the fifth tip, using task-specific language, is something I disagree with. This is because I don’t think it matters that much whether you use “submit” or “publish” regarding reviews. I think it’s easy to say that you submitted a review – the example they used really doesn’t make a difference. I feel like “submit” makes a good catch-all word and, in this scenario, saying publish actually might turn people away. They might wonder whether or not their review is good enough to publish; reviews tend to be very casual. For these reasons, I do not consider the tip worth agreeing with or implementing.