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by Edd314159 1326 days ago
It was a fun exercise to go through each of the designs in this gallery and evaluate each one. It's easy to do that for individual form controls as design elements!

Lots of these made for a nice showcase but should never be used in a product ever - just horrendously unintuitive. For some, I wouldn't even know they were checkboxes if the page wasn't titled "here's a bunch of checkboxes". But a few of them were actually quite nice, accessible, and pleasantly useable.

Ultimately it seems that the checkboxes that were closest to the native OS checkboxes were the ones I enjoyed trying the most. I guess that's a predictable outcome. But it might be an indication that the further one strays from the OS defaults, the less good of a design it is? Maybe checkboxes are a solved problem, and there is only narrowly limited room for a brand to apply its personality on form controls before they become less usable for the sake of being "unique".

#33 was by far my favourite, for the record.

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> #33 was by far my favourite, for the record.

That "pulse" on activation is pretty much Material Design. https://material-components.github.io/material-web/demos/che...