Menu Selection Cues Should Never Look the Same as Buttons
Decreasing interaction errors on menus
When you pair buttons with menu items, you have to be careful with how you design them. If your menu selection cues look the same as a button, you can cause interaction errors.
Users can misperceive the selection cue as a call-to-action. They can also accidentally click the menu item when they intended to click the button. These errors happen when the m…