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Discussion on: Should a button communicate the current state, the intended behavior, or both?

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Karan Balaji 🇨🇦 • Edited

Jakob's Law indicates users expect and prefer a similar pattern across the internet.
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For example:
1 billion people on instagram are used to seeing this functionality with that saved icon, and possibly majority of us experienced instagram UI. We can make it easier for users to not guess the UI of same functionality and make it quick for them to start.

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