Button sound effects

A rounded tone with no hard edge, the cue a product plays when something has been accepted. This is the version most interface work wants, because it reads as a response rather than as a machine part moving.

A dry snap down and a lighter snap back up, so the press has two halves. Reach for it when a finger is meant to feel like it moved something physical rather than triggered a tone.

Low, muted and almost ringless, the sound of a soft pad collapsing under a thumb. It sits under dialogue without pulling attention, which is why appliance and handset scenes use it.

Big, hollow and slightly resonant, with the spring audible on the way back. It carries the scale of a machine, so one press tells a viewer how large the thing being operated is.

Two bright metallic stages and a thin ring, the flick of a lever rather than the push of a pad. Useful when a change of state needs to sound deliberate and irreversible.

A long travel ending in a dense low thud, with weight in the release. It gives a control real mass, which is what separates industrial hardware from a plastic remote on screen.