There were buttons to help you ploddingly compose a text, buttons to help you navigate menus, and buttons to direct a hungry snake around your screen. However, for one ethical smartphone company, buttons are making a comeback, as part of an effort to help users intentionally switch off. The newly released Fairphone (Gen. 6) doesn’t have many buttons, but it wants to make the ones it does have count. “We wanted the moment of ‘unplugging’ to feel intentional and easy to use,” he explains. This ends up leading to mental fatigue and emotional dysregulation, and you’re never truly able to switch off,” explains Kaur.