Problem

You need to make buttons on your site immediately obvious.

Solution

Use a consistent style for all buttons, which are objects on the screen that the visitor can click.

Discussion

Thousands of button designs appear around the Internet. Two common styles are to depict a slightly embossed shape and to have a small thumbnail with a label.

If your site’s buttons are highly obvious, it is not necessary to have a mouseover effect to highlight them. If the buttons are more subtle, a mouseover effect can be very helpful in drawing the visitor’s attention to the widget’s interactivity. If there is a default button on the screen, consider drawing attention to it with a slow (two- to three-second) subtle pulsing, changing its brightness or size.