Good old button testing

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Everyone, at some point, does some optimisation testing of buttons designs. Some people think it's a trivial exercise to undertake when there's bigger fish to fry. Well I disagree, button design testing is exactly the kind of thing you can be doing quickly and easily with Google Optimiser or similar. We've done loads of testing in the past on buttons, testing colours, sizes, Apply text and so on,  but I read an interesting article from Get Elastic on how unusual button designs can give you an easy uplift in conversion. So I tried over the course of a couple of months on a landing page testing all the designs you see here. No.1 was the default design, and the winner was...No.3 the 'boxed arrow' design with a 32% uplift in click to apply rate. The arrow-based designs were in the upper end of the winning designs overall, but the, *cough* phallus-based designs stole an early lead but didn't win out overall. Give it a go on your website, it's quick easy and surprisingly fun.