the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others
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Intuitive colour pickers for non-expert users?
Does anyone have examples of favourite colour pickers for common, 'everyday' colours - not for RGB or HSL values?
I find traditional colour wheels really unintuitive for common colours - hard for ...
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Which colours should be chosen to match a metro theme and be easily readable? [closed]
I am colourblind, which makes choosing the colours of my website very hard (Often I choose colours that appeal to me, yet look awful to everyone else). I have recently begun a new website (Image ...
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0answers
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Do eyes accommodate to color? [migrated]
I've heard that our eyes accommodate between colors too far from each other in the visible spectrum. I imagine it's not a true focal point accommodation, but rather linked with how brain processes the ...
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0answers
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Resources on Distinguishable Colors? [duplicate]
For clarity, this isn't an accessibility question. I want the colors to be distinguishable from each other for differentiating items that will re-occur in a calendar.
I'm building an app where ...
5
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2answers
159 views
What is the validity of contrast and colours tests?
I just ran a contrast and colour test (using checkmycolours.com in this case) on our corporate site (www.dotblue.net; if you care) and it reports quite some failures. However, I explicitly optimized ...
4
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Battery - what percentage range to use for each color?
I need to display battery with 3 colors: green, orange (or yellow?) and red.
This device's battery (like iPad, iPhone etc..) with a battery life of up to two days.
What percentage range to use for ...
2
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2answers
117 views
What to present when wrong log in information entered [duplicate]
In my sign in page I made it so that the page doesn't need to reload when the wrong password is typed (similar to Google's). What should happen when the wrong password is typed? Right now I have text ...
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6answers
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How can I highlight errors when bright red is the main color of the brand?
I'm working on a mobile website for a client whose main brand color is red. The website header and headings are all red. CTA buttons are red too. How can I effectively separate errors (mostly in form ...
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7answers
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Is it a bad idea to use grey buttons?
Our design team is thinking of using grey secondary buttons on our site. I'm concerned they may appear to be disabled to our users (especially when used with the primary orange buttons). There is a ...
5
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5answers
114 views
When to display a link as a previously visited link?
Websites of today contains a variety of links including logo link, global and local navigation links, supplementary or related links, other header links, footer links, inline related links and more. ...
9
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3answers
229 views
Which color swatches best help users filter products?
I'm currently working on a design for a product filter, and one of the attributes will be color. Products will have any of several dozen specific colours, but it makes more sense to give users a ...
5
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5answers
201 views
Effect on usability if I use green and red colors (for meaning) in an app whose color scheme does not include those colors?
I am working on an application that models physical hardware to the user. As such, showing things colored red seems to be a very natural way to communicate an error state, and showing them green ...
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5answers
312 views
Is it wrong to have your primary actions in red?
We're using red as the colour for primary Actions. This can be in the form of a button.
In terms of usability, what are the downsides. Are there any upsides at all?
An example for using red coloured ...
4
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2answers
214 views
Is it helpful to colour-code different sections of a website?
A design pattern that's been around for a long time is the tendency to use different colours to demarcate different sections of a website.
For example, in the BBC.co.uk website, hover over the main ...
4
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2answers
102 views
Change button for color input modes
I have this SWT widget (color picker) with label:
By pressing the star button, color picker field transforms into code field, where you can write code:
I am not satisfied with this "star ...
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2answers
166 views
Any UX logic for the background colors of iPhone text messages? [closed]
Is there any reasons why the background of iPhone (iOS) text messages is gray (for messages sent from others) and green (sent by myself)?
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3answers
857 views
How to best communicate color names to users more clearly
Many times in using general color names in communication, i.e. Red and Green, users are confused when the color is a non-pure form of the color.
For Example, in referring to the Red-ish color of the ...
5
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5answers
160 views
How to visually indicate a change in setting
Suppose I have a settings screen where I have a table with a bunch of rows with checkboxes.
For example the default settings are:
| Name | Setting |
| A | on |
| B | off |
Then the ...
0
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1answer
80 views
Color on text area [closed]
I have a web application that works as a word processor/text editor with a text area for main input. It is designed through CSS. What background color is best to encourage the user to concentrate on ...
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2answers
246 views
Origin of “big green button”?
I found meme about big green button.
When people visit download sites (like software directories, file hosting sites, torrents, etc) after completing reading page title and deciding to download they ...
4
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3answers
138 views
Should I display a “not available” option in my key, even when I know it will never be used
I've got a site which sells lots of different products. Due to the nature of the industry, it is necessary that multiple products can be displayed on screen at the same time.
To save space, the ...
2
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2answers
82 views
Does a text editor on a dark interface need to use a black page?
I'm doing a dark interface for a program that includes a text editor. While the program uses different shades of dark grey and blue, my main "page" is currently white. This is positive because:
The ...
3
votes
1answer
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Best way to add extra information to a log table?
In a web application, I've just added a log tables that displays chronologicaly the last events that are monitored by the application.
Those events are of two main types: inputs and outputs.
In ...
3
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2answers
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Changing a White Background to…?
I am in the process of creating a website. Currently the website has a solid white background with black text. However, on different monitors the white background can be blinding bright. I have ...
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2answers
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What rules does Google use to make a button gray, blue, or red on their sites?
This has been an elusive topic, and I haven't yet been able to form my own conclusion about what Google's reasoning is to make a given button blue, red, or gray, given their latest design ethos. Take ...
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4answers
249 views
Should we risk using colors other than blue in Web apps?
Trends: New Colors (we’re looking at you, #00A0D1)
If there’s one thing that’s been stagnant in the design community, it’s the originality with colors. Sixty percent of the applications on my ...
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1answer
122 views
Color schemes for text ads
What are the most effective color schemes for text ads? Google's default is blue for headlines, black for body texts and green for links.
The Norwegian Color Empire gave the "Color of the year" award ...
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8answers
244 views
Alternative to color code in table cell
I am currently redesigning an LOB application that makes use of color coding in tables to 'categorize' each row of data.
For instance, in the picture above, the 'St' column (which stands for ...
0
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1answer
93 views
Dashboard and its overall simplicity [closed]
I would like some feedback and suggestions on overall look and feel of this dashboard mock-up for a file-sharing site. I do personally think that there is an over use of gray.
The project is for a ...
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4answers
560 views
Should a multinational website background color be a conscious choice?
We know that colors represent different things in different cultures, and selecting the wrong color can have unexpected and unwanted effect on how we present our organization. Gaming sites such as ...
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4answers
127 views
how to get the colors list of a website? [closed]
how to get the colors list of a website?
sometimes I see some beautiful website, they are colored view look,I want to anylize what colors is it used.then record color to photoshop for mysef later ...
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5answers
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Monitors display more colors than human eye can distinguish
The human eye can differentiate about 10 million colors. A 24-bit display mode can produce about 16 million. Why, then, do operating systems have 32-bit and higher display modes if the apparent ...
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3answers
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What's a good modification/alternative to differentiating categories by colour when the number of categories grows large?
We have an application in which users carry out similar tasks on different types of reports. As such, the user's first interaction with the app is to select a Report Type. To make it easy to tell at a ...
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3answers
158 views
Form validation and 'Save' button color
I'm displaying input validations on my form with a (!) (a white exclamation sign inside a red circle). Is it ok to make the Save button red (not as violently red as the circle, but some soft red ...
3
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3answers
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Appropriate color for updated row data
I have a digital signage app that displays flight information. In shows data in rows like you see at pretty much every airport in the world. Text is white on black, row background alternates ...
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3answers
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Different colors on different screens [closed]
I'm making a background image for a PDF document.
I have just realized that the same jpeg background looks really different (different colors) on different screens.
Is there a way to avoid this huge ...
0
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0answers
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Apt symbol and color for the words “solution” and “shuffle”? [closed]
Can anyone suggest me symbols and colors for the words solution and shuffle? Here shuffle means randomly rearranging a set of tiles. Will the symbol of randomize used in music players be apt for ...
2
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1answer
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Colour status notification for admin
I have to design , a website for a inventory storage firm. The items that are displayed , have three different status
1) In the store
2) Outside
3) Under Process,
When user , visits the homepage, ...
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3answers
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Placement of Buy now/Download buttons
Hello respected UX community,
I am working on a new website which will be used to sell a software application, but will also have a free limited version of it (not time limited, but feature limited). ...
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5answers
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Why are Inverted Colors considered an accessibility feature?
Why is it that in most Operating Systems the "Inverted Colors" display setting is considered an accessibility feature? Both Windows and OS X includes this option so it seems to be a recognized ...
0
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1answer
96 views
visually distinguish favorite items and wishlist items [closed]
So I have a list which is a mix of "wishlist" locations that a user wants to visit and "favorite" locations that a user has visited and liked. (physical locations e.g. restaurants, coffee shops, bars)
...
4
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2answers
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How can I choose a relative colour scheme for prices?
A client needs a piece of software where he can see what price he should be using for his products. Ideally you would say that an expensive price should be red. It is, after all, a negative ...
2
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3answers
166 views
What is the relation of the category/type of a mobile app to its color?
What is the correlation between an app's category (food and drink, social networking, financial, etc.) and the color scheme it uses?
Are there any solid, researched-backed reasons behind choosing ...
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5answers
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Why do most financial apps use a black or dark background?
I was asked today to look into designing a stock monitoring windows 8 application and I was looking around for design ideas when I noticed an interesting trend where it seems like most of these stock ...
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1answer
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Correlation between number of colors used and brain processing?
A professor once told a class I was in that there is a fixed amount of bits one can process at one time. I've always thought of it as our brains processor speed. This was in a HCI class.
He also ...
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5answers
266 views
Is it better to use a high quality monitor to design web graphics? [closed]
I am doing web graphics for about a year on quite good PVA LCD display. 95% of people who see my websites/banners are watching them on low quality TN displays suited for gaming or laptops. Colors on ...
3
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0answers
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How does background,text colors affects user's experience in reading? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate(s):
Choosing a set of colors
Is this color readable?
What is the best color combination for on screen reading?
My QUESTION -
How does background and text colors ...
4
votes
3answers
672 views
What are some best practices in picking navigation bar background color? [closed]
I am using twitter bootstrap and I don't like the default dark gray background color for the navbar.
So I was thinking of chosing a different color. But being a programmer and not a designer first ...
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4answers
3k views
Is there a problem with using black text on white backgrounds?
Why do a lot of websites use a text color other than #000000 black when the background is white?
For instance, this text will be displayed using a dark grey:
.post-text {
color: #333;
}
Have ...
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votes
1answer
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How to find a color scheme that's also useful when printed in black and white?
I'm looking for a 5 color color-scheme that also useful when printed in black and white, respectively gray scale.
The colors should be easily distinguishable from each other.
How can i do that?
