Your UI buttons are performative — and that's worse than having no buttons at all.

Your UI buttons are performative — and that's worse than having no buttons at all.

Resolve. Acknowledge. Escalate. Three buttons sitting right there in the interface. Sounds powerful. Looks useful.

But when you click them? Nothing visibly happens. No confirmation. No state change. No feedback.

That's not UX. That's theater. You've created the illusion of control without the substance of it.

Feature theater erodes trust faster than missing features do. Users start questioning everything — is anything actually working here?

If your buttons don't do something obvious, they're not features. They're liabilities. Dead weight dressed up as functionality.

Resolve. Acknowledge. Escalate. Three words. Zero clarity. Your UI promised capability and delivered confusion — exactly what the original problem warned us about.