buttonology

The study of buttons (clothing fasteners and badges).

We're masters "buttonology" — of experimentation, of keeping pace with far-sighted fashion trends — are climaxed in a new Spring line which we present to the trade as worthy of representing our Golden Jubilee.

Happily this “button book of button books” by Lillian Smith Albert and Kathryn Kent provides a convenient guide through the maze of buttonology.

An exaggerated and pointlessly pedantic systematization, especially of something trivial.

In the short story De lycksaliges ö from 1890 there is a satire on the Historical Museum in Stockholm , where archaeology with its typological method is characterized as a “ buttonology " ( Strindberg 1890 : 116ff ; cf. Welinder 1994 : 297ff , 320ff )

From this point of view ethnology carries on, as do also, of course, all other disciplines, "buttonology" (knappologi).

The basic training required to start using a machine or piece of software: what the components of the interface are, what they do, and how to accomplish basic tasks.

But if he does know his buttonology, there is much pleasure and profit for him in amateur picture-taking.

The bottom line is that high - technology training goes far beyond “ buttonology , " or learning how to push the buttons on the computer .

User interface

“The [controller] that will go in theater . . . is just a tad bigger . . . but all the same buttonology, but it’s ruggedized for the environment,” Raulerson said.

Fielding the newer version of the system with or without the enclave is important to units slated to have DCGS-A because the newer version “is a lot more user friendly for our analysts, as it’s more in tune with Windows-type applications,” he said at the roundtable. What’s more, it features what he called new “buttonology” to which users are more receptive.