Suggested response buttons style update

[jmusial]

Explanation of Change

This PR is a second version of reverted #82113. DB link

It changes the styles for phrasal response concierge buttons. (ADDCOMMENT w/ followups, CONCIERGEDESCRIPTIONOPTIONS and CONCIERGECATEGORYOPTIONS).

Fixed Issues

$ #81748
PROPOSAL:
N/A

Tests

1. Create a new account (in either @swmansion.com or @dmb.fun domains. Can be any fake email, you do not need to enter the magic code.)
2. In the onboarding for a new user that "Manages my team's expenses" and "1-10".
3. Get a welcome message w/ follow ups in the #admins chat.
4. Verify that the styles are correct (as on screenshots).
5. Create an expense and have Concierge propose the categories and/or description.
6. Verify that the styles are correct (as on screenshots).
7. Verify that all other Concierge (ex. whispers) have old buttons styles.

Offline tests

N/A

QA Steps

Same as tests.

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Screenshots/Videos

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

Desktop:

Mobile:

Super narrow screen (word break):

Whispers:

[jmusial]

@Expensify/design please take a look and confirm that this are all the buttons that are considered phrasal response buttons that we need to change (sshots in the description)

[melvin-bot]

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[jmusial]

@bernhardoj I think this one counts as a regression from #82113 and @abzokhattab should do the review as the reviewer of the OG PR?

[shawnborton]

The screenshots don't look quite right. I believe the design team landed on making these phrasal response buttons (PRBs!) look similar to product buttons so we don't have the confusion of multiple button shapes.

To make this work in practice, this means that each phrasal response button needs to essentially have 20px of border radius with a 40px height. So that as the button grows, we get this effect:

CleanShot.2026-02-20.at.15.26.56.mp4

Button details:

• min-height: 40px
• padding-horizontal: 16px
• padding-vertical: 8px
• border-radius: 20px

Then the max-width would be the width of the container that it is in. Let me know how that sounds!

[shawnborton]

cc @Expensify/design for the gut check on that

[jmusial]

The screenshots don't look quite right. I believe the design team landed on making these phrasal response buttons (PRBs!) look similar to product buttons so we don't have the confusion of multiple button shapes.

To make this work in practice, this means that each phrasal response button needs to essentially have 20px of border radius with a 40px height. So that as the button grows, we get this effect:

CleanShot.2026-02-20.at.15.26.56.mp4
Button details:

• min-height: 40px
• padding-horizontal: 16px
• padding-vertical: 8px
• border-radius: 20px

Then the max-width would be the width of the container that it is in. Let me know how that sounds!

Yeah, sorry - totally missed the convo and decision on slack 😢 .
Changes look ok for me, will implement and let you know

cc. @Beamanator we need to update emails as well

[dannymcclain]

@shawnborton that all sounds right to me!

phrasal response buttons (PRBs!)

🤣 Hate it and love it and am definitely going to use PRB in Slack/GH from now on 🤣

[jmusial]

Updated styles

[dannymcclain]

Oh I am digging that. Let's see what the rest of the @Expensify/design team thinks!

(Also, thank you @jmusial - I know we've messed with these buttons waaaaaaaaaaay more than any of us expected 😅)