A senior dev told me my buttons had no breathing room and it totally clicked

I had this login screen I was really proud of last month. Clean layout, nice colors, all that. Showed it to a senior dev on my team and he just said "your buttons feel cramped. Give them some air." At first I was like whatever, it's fine. Then I actually looked at it again and yeah, the CTA button was hugging the input fields way too close. I added 16px of margin around it and suddenly the whole thing felt... calmer? More intentional. It sounds so simple but it made me go back and check all my spacing on other projects. Anyone else have a tiny feedback point that just rewired how you see things?

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anthony1652d agoMost Upvoted

Wait, you mean adding just 16px of space around a button actually made the whole page feel different? That's WILD how something so small can completely change the vibe of a layout. I would have never guessed a tiny margin could make everything look so much more put together.

tessawebb2d ago

Actually spacing like that can make a layout feel empty and disconnected if you overdo it.