Buttons need to make sense

Following along on previous post, another post from Coding Horror on buttons .   Can you guess the app?  I think it's Firefox myself.  Regardless ... can you guess what they mean?  Sure, some of them are dead easy.  They are using icons that we are used to seeing everyday.  The post on Coding Horror makes a point we all need to remember ... button have to make intuitive sense, and when they don't ... they need good explanations.

Easy?  Nope, not at all.  Lots of buttons, for good or ill, are stuck in our psyches, but others ... sometimes you need to create them.  That's when the fun begins.

Tags: software development