This article explores the history of buttons in design, from their rise in the late 19th century with industrialization to their decline with the advent of touchscreens. It discusses the various reasons for their appeal and eventual replacement, and how they are now making a comeback.
An elevator button panel is shown in Toronto on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. (Kat McCallum/The Canadian Press)The rise of smartphones, tablets and electric vehicles has pushed buttons out of many design interfaces. In their place are touchscreens, voice activation and motion sensors galore.Apple recently added two new buttons to its latest iPhone — one of which is tied to its new AI functions.
In the automotive world, Hyundai and Volkswagen are bringing both buttons and dials back to buttress their touchscreens.The button game really changed in 2007. That's when Apple released its first touchscreen iPhone, and it influenced how so many of our devices look and operate today. So instead of buttons and knobs, everything seemed to have a touchscreen. Kitchen appliances, our microwaves, our stoves, to kiosks in fast food chains.On the one hand, I think there was kind of this sexiness of design. You know, touchscreens were perceived as very high tech and new. This is after 2001, the movie came out. There was all this excitement around this idea of: how will we manipulate technologies with our hands in new ways? And specifically, how can we touch our data and our computers in different ways? So I think there was kind of this paradigm shift in terms of design. A woman takes a video of the new iPhone 16 Pro after Apple's It's Glowtime event in Cupertino, Calif., on Sept. 9. (Nic Coury/AFP via Getty Images) But also touchscreens kind of wedding software to buttons to make our devices much more flexibl
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