the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others
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What research, patterns or techniques will help me choose the correct colors (or saturations) to the various UI elements of a page?
I am building a tool that will be used by call center agents. It is to help them support products on behalf of the customers who call up. It acts as a portal to many different types of product ...
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Which colors make you hungry
I am working on a new brand, which is all about food.
What colors should we use for the logo and website?
I keep reading that red makes you hungry, but i would like to stay away from that color. ...
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Is flashing red text a good idea for denoting an active alarm?
I'm working on a windows application that is showing the realtime status of a particular piece of equipment. While operating the equipment (via the application), two important values & labels are ...
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What colours should arithmetical operators +, −, ÷ and × have?
Are there any colours that are commonly associated with basic arithmetical operations?
I want to make the operators +, −, ÷ and × more easily distinguishable by colourizing them. For the plus and ...
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Information Graphics vs Brand Awareness
I'm looking for some information on mapping color to graphs. To be more specific, I've got a bunch of graphs that represent Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and now Google+ in line charts. We've had an on ...
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The colors hurt my eyes
I've built this BBC feed which people find nicely styled (please ignore the animation glitch - I'm working on it!). However, people have been telling me (and I've felt it also) that the colors hurt ...
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Icon based buttons or Color based buttons which is more UI attractive and Friendly
I am seeing websites increasingly switching to color based buttons and interaction elements rather than icon based is this a trend or do they have reasons behind the switch? For example see the ...
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Why does ESPN subtly change the color of some of its article text?
This is something that's bugged me for years: I'll be reading a story on ESPN and notice that the first paragraph is dark gray, and the second paragraph is often black. I've even taken a screenshot ...
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How to Indicate ComboBox Value Is Dirty
I'm looking for a good way to indicate the value of a ComboBox is dirty. With TextBoxes I set the Background to yellow but that looks a little funny with the ComboBox because by default it looks ...
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Choosing colors appropriately for red-green colorblindness
I want a green for "correct answer" and a red for "wrong answer". My current choice is rgb(144, 238, 144) for the green and rgb(250, 128, 114) for the red. (See wikilearner.net/wiki for the colours in ...
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What are good resources for testing UI design for color-blind users? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I check if my user interface is suited for colorblind people?
I'd like to ensure that color blind users experience the UI with sufficient contrast between ...
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Traffic light like indicator for color-blind users?
We want to implement an indicator to display 'good' 'average' or 'bad'.
So someone came up with a traffic light image.
(green circle for 'good' yellow circle for 'average' and a red circle for 'bad')
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Usage of darker shade to show selected/focused button
Consider that I am creating an interface for a mobile app which shows a list of buttons on the main screen. I can move through the buttons using mobile keypad (feature phones) or screen touch (smart ...
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Bridging the gap between color palettes and CSS
I'm familiar with sites such as kuler, I'm well-versed in HTML/CSS/JavaScript (as a programmer), and I know what sort of content I want in my website. I can figure out how to lay out my content ...
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How important is the ability to change the color theme on a desktop application?
At my company we create Windows desktop applications using Microsoft's .Net (WPF to be specific). The window or "chrome" is completely customized, meaning that we do not use the standard Windows ...
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Choosing a set of colors
I'm not a graphic designer, and I can't afford one for my open source project, so I thought I'd crowdsource this one. I'm trying to work out a set of 6-8 easily-differentiable colors for categories in ...
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How do you design a registration form?
I am trying to learn about registration forms, what should I be careful about when designing one? Is there any "best practice" or do you know any great websites with great examples of registration ...
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Creating a UI for brightness/gamma calibration
I'm working on a game where we, at start up, display a brightness calibration screen that users can use to adjust the brightness of their screen so that the game appears more or less consistent across ...
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How to get a consistent “perceived” color on a transparent BG? [closed]
I'm in a pickle.
I have to make form controls (buttons, checkboxes, text inputs, etc.) on a semi transparent black background (85% alpha).
Here's what they look like so far:
Notice the ...
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full-color icons vs. greyed-out icons in menus
Icons in menus are often full-color. Even though the page an icon/menu item controls is not active, the icon still appears in its normal hues. To distinguish the icon which is active, a designer will ...
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What is the best color combination for on screen reading?
I work at an airline as a pilot and I am involved in the "paperless" project which aims to have no more paper in the cockpit - all the data should be accessible from tablet devices.
We have a lot to ...
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2answers
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Applying accurate colors from desktop screen to Mobile applications
I am currently working on some skin designs for an android application and
in order to achieve the desired color results, I did some color test to it.
I save my files in .png and .jpg versions and ...
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When would I use HSLa over RGBa? What are the benefits with HSLa?
I recently learned about the HSLa format for specifying colors with CSS3. When would I use HSLa over RGBa?
Here are two articles that briefly talk about it:
http://css-tricks.com/yay-for-hsla/
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Coloring Buttons
I have a application that presents the user some information about an appointment and allows them to perform any one of various actions that the user will decide on based on the information presented.
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Geek-friendly website design for a software shop [closed]
We are in the process of branding our start up. Our target customers are technology shops around the world. Thus we want our logo and website's look and feel to be appealing to techies and geeks (Not ...
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Resources explaining how to approach UI theming
I'm looking for resources that best describe picking and using colors within a user interface. For example, elements that are good to color and elements that should have no or little color impact. I ...
