buttonology /ˈbʌtənɒləd͡ʒi/ noun4 •The study of buttons (clothing fasteners and badges).Happily this “button book of button books” by Lillian Smith Albert and Kathryn Kent provides a convenient guide through the maze of buttonology. — 1949 •(informal) 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. — 1924 •(US, slang) 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. — 2007 •(disapproving) An exaggerated and pointlessly pedantic systematization, especially of something trivial.From this point of view ethnology carries on, as do also, of course, all other disciplines, "buttonology" (knappologi). — 2014
