UI Anti-Pattern: Non-Clickable Borders

Summer time is here and blogging time is at a minimum. The arrival of grand theft auto 4 at my house hasn't helped.

There's a cybercafe in the game and a mockup computer interface. It suffers from extreme usability issues. Here's an anti-pattern: The non-clickable border...

This is especially common in pagination hyperlinks, where a box is often implied but may not be hot. You want to make sure that the area surrounding the text in your buttons or pagination is also clickable.