Buttons in Atomic Design

Parvez
1 min readFeb 19, 2019

Is button an Atom or a Molecule?

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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

Confucius

I am working on a ‘Design System’ and I am still working on the typography part which is an Atom.

I am scratching my head to conclude whether ‘Button’ is am Atom or a Molecule according to Atomic Design Methodology.

According to the structure of Atomic Design a molecule is made of 2 more of atoms.

Buttons have different attributes such as:

  • Color
  • Size
  • Shape
  • Color
  • Flat/Bordered
  • States (active/enabled/disabled/progress)
  • and “Labels”

According to my understanding ‘labels’ should be derived from Typography which is an atom.

Please share your feedback on the comments section.

Many thanks.

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Parvez

Practicing Designer — Listener— Writer. A self taught Developer turned Designer.