Timeline for Why do messaging apps color the user's messages brighter than the people they message?
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| Jun 18, 2019 at 15:33 | comment | added | Moath | Primary action of a messaging app is sending and receiving messages (conversation) and I believe the messages received are the ones that need to be as readable as possible compared to the messages sent. | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 13:17 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | I second @TripeHound; in a fact, depending on the context, I cannot help but consider "Because the person of interest here is you and your action is taken as a priority." a somewhat worrying attitude to something called "conversation". | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 5:55 | comment | added | Shreyas Tripathy | I can't disagree with you here because with applications that offer multiple functionalities, people can have preferences as to what is more important. But for the developers and the designers one needs to be picked and the way it has gone so far is that writing an email in an email client is the primary action and sender's message has been the primary element in messaging apps. We'd have to go the inventors of messaging service to find out why they picked this :P | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 14:23 | comment | added | TripeHound | I would argue that the messages received are more important (to me) than the ones sent. (Hopefully, the ones I send are of importance to the recipient). As for Ask Question: you can ask a question anywhere, so it can go (prominently) in the header. However, you can only answer a specific question, so that realistically can only happen on question pages. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 12:16 | history | answered | Shreyas Tripathy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |