sean, 1 month ago

I get that there’s a colloquial convention for this in the UI design language (left off, right on), but it’s uaully accompanied by a label or at least a colour change.

This is especially complicated for an international audience (e.g. US power switches up for on; UK down for on).

I have a hard time believing this is not an intentional anti-pattern to trick users into doing the thing the website wants them to do (which is often the opposite of what the user wants to do).

Please don’t do this.

A website cookie opt-out banner with controls for advertising, personalization, analytics… but controls are slider buttons with no state label, and the visual presentation is the same for both states other than a left/right orientation.