States

Types

States communicate the status of the components to the user. States must have clear affordances distinguishing them from one other and the surrounding UI, emphasized according to their priority levels.

1. Enabled / Default state
   State visible when a component is interactive.
2. Hover state
   State visible when a user has placed a cursor above an interactive component. Cursor becomes a pointer.
3. Focused state
   State visible when a user has highlighted an interactive component, using an input method such as a keyboard or voice.
4. Disabled state
   State visible when a component is noninteractive. This state is applied to a component when the user is not allowed to interact with it due to either permissions, dependencies, or pre-requisites. Disabled states completely remove the interactive function of a component.
5. Selected state
   State visible when a user make a choice.

Enabled/default state

The enabled state is the default state of a component/element, it's what the user see before any interaction. To follow the Proximus brand, major part of a components are purple and grey colors based.

Hover state

A hover state communicates when a component or element is interactive, and should be emphasized in a UI. This state is initiated by the user using a cursor over an interactive component.

1. Default hover
   The default hover gives a clear affordances distinguishing this state from the enabled one and the surrounding UI.
2. Light hover
   The light hover is a semi-transparent covering on an component that indicates its state. Light hover state provides a way to highlight the components on hover without too much emphasis. An overlay can be applied to an entire component. We are using this type of hover state for lists.
   This hover effect is used for list components such as drag and drop, action menu,...

Focused state

A focused state communicates when a user has highlighted an element using a keyboard or voice. Focus states apply to all interactive components.

Each browser has a different default focus state style that we customized to match the UI of Proximus interfaces. The focused state is visualy the same than the hover state.

Focused state combined with selected state

Focused state can be combined with selected state and remain strighly visible. When a element is on selected state, the outline is placed outside to be still visible.

1. Focused state
2. Selected state
3. Selected + focused states

Disabled state

A disabled state communicates when a component or element isn’t interactive, and should be deemphasized in a UI.

Best practices

• Disabled components can be hovered over, but won’t display state changes to the component or cursor.
• Disabled components don’t change state when tapped.

Selected state

A selected state indicates user selection of options. This state should receive medium emphasis so they are easily identifiable, but not distracting.

Selected state with positive emphasis

For some components, the selected state is using green color to emphase a positive and success message.