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A couple of times i found myself clicking on various text labels just to see if it is a title or a button. All these flat minimalist designs are a step in a horribly wrong direction.

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I've seen all 4 combinations of "looks like" vs "is actually" {button,static text} on a web app I was once forced to use. Some of the plain text was actually a clickable button (with NO hover effect), and some of the "buttons" (or more precisely, short actionable text with a rectangle around it) were actually just labels. Imagine the word "Order" presented in both styles, and my astonishment when I figured out which one I actually had to click.

And sometimes a text label hides a menu.

The best i've seen was a web page with a hamburger menu which had no action.

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