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Psychologically speaking, red means caution, stop, or no, and green means good, healthy, or go.
See: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/stop-on-red-a-monkey-study-suggests-that-the-effects-of-color-lie-deep-in-evolution.html
and: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/people-places-and-things/201002/positive-design-color
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The green and red colors are traditionally used in the engineering as "positive, allowed, safe, yes" (green) and "negative, forbidden, danger, no" (red) indication.
This tradition is very old and widespread and all people are taught to perceive these colors in this way.
So, it would be very unwise to use these colors in other meaning, because this will ...
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The short answer: as few as possible and still communicating the message in a meaningful way.
The long answer: The reason to display a tooltip message varies a lot. But from a User Experience point of view a tooltip can’t be the only way to inform a user. There are users that don’t understand that there is a tooltip to begin with and much less understand ...
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Does it matter if the file will be downloaded vs. shown in browser?
A good thing to keep in mind is the performance and user experience of viewing the file in browser vs on computer. Depending on your audience people use different browsers and older browsers which are not good at handling a decent PDF form too. After debating on this, you should decide ...
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I would suggest that a third option would be better.
Have an infinite canvas area (or one that grows as needed), but have a defined page area on the canvas that can be resized in settings. This is the approach that most vector drawing programs (such as Inkscape or Illustrator) use.
It has the advantage of allowing a rough work area by simply drawing ...
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perfect the website layout for a certain width (e.g. 980px, as is recommended for the iPad)
stronger layout structure (layout is less likely to break)
newspaper-like columns: it is easier for the eye to read in columns with certain number of words than it is to read text running over the whole screen
depending on content: typical facebook posts ...
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Option 2 is probably the way to go.
Leave the decision about what size the image can be up to the user, don't assume that you know best in this instance. If they decide that they want to make a massive and illegible image that can't be printed because it's 4 metres wide, then that's up to them really.
Ask yourself this question: What would annoy users more ...
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For the most part, digital wireframes are more useful both for designing and for documentation. However if you need to have them on paper, the chances are that they are needed for archiving or for reviewing. In that case, I would recommend sticking to whatever the standard paper size is wherever you are.
That is typically Letter or A4.
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