[Design] [UI Standardization] Are you using progressive and constructive buttons?

[May Tee-Galloway]

Hello everyone,

TLDR, if your team has been using progressive and constructive buttons,
read on:

There is a task on button consolidation (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110555) that is being blocked by teams
who are using progressive and constructive buttons. This task is also
blocking another task (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109915).

We (standardization team and community) have come to consensus
on consolidating progressive (blue) and constructive (green) buttons (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110555). We've decided to stick with
using only progressive color buttons due to a few reasons such as:

1. "we've had confusions from developers and community members in
understanding when and where to use constructive vs. progressive. For our
users to learn the association of constructive button being the last action
in a process and progressive being the in-betweens, it "requires [the
pattern] to be applied consistently to work" - Isarra
2. "in certain complex processes, it's hard to tell which would be the
last step." - Pau

There are many factors why these complications can happen, but looking at
the realistic resources we have to validate the effect it has on our users,
we went back and consider the original intent of use of these buttons. Feel
free to read more about it here (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110555#1864571).

Help us move forward in commenting on the task (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110555). Thank you!

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Discussion on design list
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2015-October/002414.html

Discussion on Phabricator
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110555

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