Design Principle
Button styling expresses decision cost and risk, not just visual preference.
Principle Button styling expresses decision cost and risk, not just visual preference.
Design action Keep one primary action per form; move destructive actions away from the main flow with semantic copy, and demote secondary actions to outline or text.
Examples Positive example: Publish, archive, delete, save, and submit review. Counterexample: Delete and save are equally prominent.
Apply when Publish, archive, delete, save, and submit review. A page has several executable commands.
Source notes Source note: Synthesized from Apple HIG, Material Design, GOV.UK/Polaris/Atlassian component practices, and interaction accessibility principles.
Agent Directive
Keep one primary action per form; move destructive actions away from the main flow with semantic copy, and demote secondary actions to outline or text.