What is interface responsiveness?
The responsiveness of the interface is the site’s response to user actions. For example, when you hover over a button, it should change color, and the cursor should change to pointer. So the user will understand that it can be pressed. That is, the interface responds to user actions and responds by changing the design.
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The usual form
Responsive form
How important is it?
The responsiveness of the interface is like tactile sensations. Without them, confusion will arise. Users will need to constantly guess whether the item is active, whether it is clicked. To make the interaction with the site as intuitive as possible, its interface must be responsive.
Otherwise:
- The user will be constantly distracted in order to understand how to interact with the site. This reduces focus and takes away attention from the process of studying the site.
- Lack of responsiveness makes website design cheaper. It seems unfinished or even artisanal.
- The user may get so confused that he decides that the site is broken and leaves it.
What to do with the problems found?
For all active elements, you need to specify the hover, focus, and click behavior. To do this, create style rules with pseudo-classes :hover, :focus, :active and specify a design change.
This should be done for all forms, buttons, links, and generally active elements for which the pointer cursor is specified.