Visual Cues to Help Users Perceive Drag-and-Drop

How to make drag-and-drop clear

Drag-and-drop is an affordance that’s harder to perceive than clicking. Unlike clicking, you can’t just use a button surface as the cue. You need several other cues that signify drag-and-drop.

The first cue you need is an icon. Many interfaces fail to use any icon for drag-and-drop. As a result, users have no way of knowing that drag-and-drop is even pos…