the choice of colors used in design for a range of media
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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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Colour as a coding mechanism [duplicate]
When using colour as a coding mechanism, the number of colours used should be:
a. 7 or fewer
b. 9 or fewer
c. 6 or fewer
d. 8 or fewer
Potentially a question for cognisc Stack Exchange but this ...
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How many primary colours should my web page design have? [closed]
Is there any possible number of colours that I am forced not to exceed according to ux principles? for example : am I able to use 3 or 4 primary colours in w web page design?
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Best to have color scheme match or compete with the bezel on a mobile device?
Consider this situation: I have an iPad (or other tablet) app, and I can assume that all devices that are using my app have a black bezel. Should the color scheme of my app be dark (to match the ...
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Changing Colour of Social Media buttons to match Colour Palette
I'm interested in getting opinions on changing the colour of social media buttons (facebook/twitter/linkedin sign-up and login as well as sharing) to better fit in with the colour pallet of our ...
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Which color scheme is used on phpjs.org website in code textareas? [closed]
here is the screenshot from this website:
http://phpjs.org/functions/array/
I really like that color combinations and would like to find the equivalent for sublime text 2 or some other editor or at ...
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On news apps, how does using a different colour for each category help the user?
On news websites and news apps, a specific colour is often used for the link to each category (background colour or underline colour), and I would like to understand how this is helpful for the user, ...
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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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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 ...
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What is a good color combination, visibility for outside use
I am designing the layout for a touchscreen for outside use, What are some good color combination to use that will be visible under the sun light for outside use? Maybe bright neon colors?
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Shades of Green for age status [closed]
I am building a cab booking application, and I need to differentiate the various cabs in the vicinity by their age. Age in the sense how long back did they update their current location. If they ...
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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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What's the best color to represent authorization? [closed]
I need to represent a color for authorization,
right now I have a green like
#8CBE29
but does not conbine with the other colors on the table
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Dyslexia friendly colors for wider audience? [closed]
I have met few dyslexic people and asked them about their reading style.
Some of them said that typing on black key board with white writing is easier for them, it helps them identify the shape of ...
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Is it advisable to use own color scheme for Android app
Android does come with 2 default color scheme : Holo light and Holo dark.
I was wondering, is it advisable to use own color scheme in Android app? What kind of consideration we should taken in, when ...
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How to translate a rating range into Red-Yello-Green Colours? [closed]
I have an application which needs to display the rating for a product in an easy to understand visual way. I was thinking of colour coding using the the universal red bad yellow ok and green good ...
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Is this hard to read?
This is a snippet on a site i have just been building. I considered the readability etc, and the corporate colours, and tried to work with them.
Actually, I find it quite relaxing to read and view, ...
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Multipart progress / status bar colours
I am working on an application that needs to show users their currents status / progress in performing a task on a number of items. There are three states that each item can have:
New (blue) - ...
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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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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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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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How should I format question-response sections in a document?
I work on proposals that need to be formatted in question-response sections. Currently, we use different colors to distinguish between questions and responses. However, members of my team want to make ...
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Best way to identify different element states?
I maintain a reporting app and currently we're trying to come up with a new way to organize our settings page.
We display our settings in a table, this is used for displaying the setting/values only.
...
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Stressless user experience for data entry forms
We're currently discussing a redesign of the applications we develop for internal use. Now, to change things for the better, we'd like to make as many UX considerations as possible before we go ahead. ...
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Registration Button Research
I'm redesigning the registration page for my website, and I'm wondering if anyone has come across any research relating to the affects of different wording and colors for the registration button?
How ...
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Why are most social networking sites in blue?
Why do most social media websites use blue as the main color? e.g., Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, foursquare, ...
I am only interested in answers based on some scientific research.
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Coloring Schemes
I am very new to mobile programming...basically just starting to fiddle with it today. :)
I remember a project I did back in school that surveyed people (at a mall lol) and I asked them which text ...
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Better to Auto-change skins or allow selection?
I am designing a site with 3 basic skins. Each skin corresponds to a "team". Generally these teams face off about once a week or so in major tournaments, and one of the 3 teams will always win.
For ...
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Is there any research on the color schemes which work with different genders
I am working on designing an eCommerce site where the focus is a user group with the age group of 30+ women with expensive tastes and I was trying to find if there is any research on the color schemes ...
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Mobile app considering ecology - is it possible to blend light green into calm scheme?
At workplace I was asked to design the interface for mobile application (for tablets and mobile phones). I'm not a professional designer so I got stuck already with the colour scheme.
This ...
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Are dark non neutrals colors suited for page backgrounds or is it more advisable to go for neutral colors like black or dark grey?
I am just finishing up a site for a non profit and we are having a bit of a debate of about what the background color should be
I have been trying to emphasise on the need for a neutral color like ...
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Colors for the date period
I'm want to emphasise date period(2 dates: start and end) in table cell.
Usually it's green for start and red for the end, but I believe it'll be too distracting...
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What effect would a grayscale color scheme have on UX?
I am thinking of designing a website that will have no color other than black, gray, and white (including links).
Will the absence of colors such as blue, green, etc. affect the user experience of ...
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How can I improve the display of fonts when no anti-aliasing is used?
I'm a web developer by trade and struggle with colour theories and graphic design. I also develop on an iMac, hence beautiful browsing/visual experience ensues, however when I view on Windows machines ...
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How can I communicate linear progress through a series of states with color?
I'm trying to help visualize a portfolio of projects.
They start off in the first state with some basic details, then they're reviewed, fully defined, and finally, work is begun.
Right now, the ...
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Best way to choose color combination from palette?
I have the following scenario:
This is a color picker for a software we're developing. Basically we have different Groups for Items and Items are displayed as boxes in a grid with a given color ...
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Which colors would best convey 3 difficulty levels?
I'm making a baby toy/game to learn numbers and I have a menu with 3 buttons. The first button enters "learn mode", the second button is an easy quiz, and the third button is a medium quiz.
Are there ...
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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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What resources do you use to find good color combinations? [closed]
My background is in web development, not UI design. I have no problem creating the layout and getting it pixel-perfect, but I can never figure out what colors to use and where. I have seen projects ...
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What colors to use in contrast to designs using warm colors?
When a site's identity contains (or consists of) warm colors, would you also use warm colors as the main color(s) for its design or not?
The problem I find in using warm colors as the main colors in ...
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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 ...
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3answers
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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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Reason that most (business) applications have a blue theme?
Most applications use blue as their central color, particularly business applications (e.g. Windows uses blue in most of it's chrome).
I am being pushed to use purple throughout our current ...
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How important is it to consider color for color blindness in a design
In response to this question about iconography, I was wondering about how much it is necessary to factor in color usability for people with color perception difficulties into a design.
The first ...
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Providing warm colors when the content is depressing?
I had posted a question earlier asking for views on what would be the ideal background color to enhance readability and had indicated my inclination towards having a dark or a greyish background to ...
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How much color may a UI have?
I work on a Network management system (NMS) frontend. Basically this app shows a list of alarms, updated in realtime. Such NMS apps already exist in a large variety, but two things they have in ...
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Is this site's colour scheme readable?
Having realised that I am not very good at identifying whether a site works and is readable, can I ask for comments on this site's colour scheme, which is entirely under my control. I have tried to go ...
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How to classify content and actions?
How can I classify a type of action or content? Such as distinguishing two actions and content, the Customer and the Seller.
Would the use of colours be convenient? Example:
Blue buttons indicate ...
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Choosing colors for a subtle UI
I'm currently agonizing over how light I can make various colors in my UI before I adversely affect usability. The reason for the agonizing is that different monitors have different responses. Those ...
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Remove color to add emphasis
Context
I'm working on a new user interface for a project portal system. Part of the system is a dashboard that lets the user know what the status of his project is. This dashboard is also there to ...
