103
votes
Accepted
A UI/UX developer with color-blindness. Good or Bad idea or maybe a challenge?
There is no problem to work as a UX/UI designer, as choosing color is just a minor part of the usability process. There are lots of other activities that the UX-er should do, like usability testing, ...
- 11.5k
60
votes
Is colour alone enough to convey warning?
No, it is not enough. This is how your image looks for people with achromatopsia (grayscale vision)
This with Blue-Weak Tritanomaly
This with Blue-Blind Tritanopia
As you can see, there are evident ...
- 37.3k
57
votes
A UI/UX developer with color-blindness. Good or Bad idea or maybe a challenge?
I've been doing front-end work for a decade, and I have deuteranopia or deuteranomaly (red-green color blindness). It has never been a problem.
I largely rely on color codes and location/proximity on ...
- 671
28
votes
Accepted
Colorblindness-friendly colors called "green", "blue", "yellow", and "red"
Would patterns work for your use case?
You could keep the shape, size, position and orientation the same for each one and have a 'colour blindness mode' where instead of colours to distinguish the ...
- 2,588
25
votes
A UI/UX developer with color-blindness. Good or Bad idea or maybe a challenge?
Limitations are limiting
Everyone here is very nice, but they're dodging one important point:
Being a color-blind UXD will limit your ability to be an all-in-one product designer.
Everyone has ...
- 21.3k
23
votes
Is colour alone enough to convey warning?
Color alone is never sufficient to convey information because:
Roughly 5% of the world population has some form of color vision deficiency, either dichromacy (only two types of working cone cells), ...
19
votes
Is colour alone enough to convey warning?
The color alone is not sufficient as a distinguishing feature. The comparison to a traffic light is also not entirely correct. A traffic light has not only the three colors but also a very specific ...
- 3,415
17
votes
Alert colors are really user-friendly to color-blind users?
Quick Answer
In your case that color scheme is NOT safe for colorblind people. First of all don't forget that there are different types of color vision deficiency. Let's summarize why your image is ...
- 5,053
14
votes
Color Palette for All types of Color Blindness
The problem with your question is that there are a few different types of colour blindness and each of them perceive colours in different ways to the point that there are no 'colour' pallets that will ...
- 14.2k
14
votes
A UI/UX developer with color-blindness. Good or Bad idea or maybe a challenge?
Color blindness may hinder your ability to produce some visual designs and maybe some parts of a 'pretty' UI, as color goes a long way to aesthetic appeal, BUT, as a UX designer I would go so far as ...
- 893
13
votes
Accepted
Color Palette for All types of Color Blindness
The key thing while designing for color blindness is that your colors should provide enough contrast to allow people with monochromatic vision to distinguish between shades since they cant see colors. ...
- 43.8k
11
votes
A UI/UX developer with color-blindness. Good or Bad idea or maybe a challenge?
I worked with a front-end developer with color blindness in the past. It never was a problem.
You may have to check if the used colors are good for the larger group of users, but every UI/UX ...
- 11.4k
11
votes
Colorblindness-friendly colors called "green", "blue", "yellow", and "red"
Consider the following "color-blind friendly palette"
I think this palette has colors that can be easily interpreted to be green (4th), yellow (5th), blue(3rd or 6th) and red (7th).
- 211
11
votes
Colorblindness-friendly colors called "green", "blue", "yellow", and "red"
As a colourblind person - thank you. And may the inventors of the colors of LEDs(*) burn in hell for eternity. (since everyone is taking this comment too seriously, I am removing it and let everyone ...
- 359
10
votes
Accepted
Do red "destructive" buttons hurt accessibility?
Disclaimer: The software I produce is not required to be WCAG compliant, so I cannot speak to any official requirements. However, my dad is colorblind, so there's that...
One of the most important ...
- 19.5k
9
votes
Is it okay to use orange color for buttons and red for warning messages/buttons?
I'd keep your primary action as is, but make your secondary action a link using the same colour as the primary button.
This way your secondary action...
is less prominant and not so 'in your face', ...
- 71k
9
votes
A UI/UX developer with color-blindness. Good or Bad idea or maybe a challenge?
You will be the most precious designer in your company!
In my software project, I always struggle to find solid advice about color choices. There are many guidelines and tools to measure how ...
- 274
8
votes
A UI/UX developer with color-blindness. Good or Bad idea or maybe a challenge?
I'm mildly red/green colorblind. As you're probably aware, about 9% of males have some degree of deuteranomaly. If that's your flavor of color blindness, you are absolutely an asset.
Your first task ...
- 101
8
votes
A UI/UX developer with color-blindness. Good or Bad idea or maybe a challenge?
I worked with a UX designer with serious color blindness. We would decide the color palette together, then wireframe the product in grayscale.
Then using color palette with lighter/darker colors from ...
- 214
8
votes
Alert colors are really user-friendly to color-blind users?
You should consider checking any color palette options using an on-line simulator such as Coblis (http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/), which shows you how images look ...
- 3,396
6
votes
Alternatives for red/green in diff output
The direct answer to your question is completely opinion based, so I'll ignore it. Instead...
To arbitrarily pick two different colors would go against a well established standard. By not maintaining ...
- 17.6k
6
votes
Accepted
Alternatives for red/green in diff output
Red and green has a certain logic to it, in the sense that Western culture does associate green with “positive” states and red with “negative” states. In this sense, red is appropriate for deleted ...
- 37.7k
6
votes
Is it a good idea to use red color in User Interfaces?
You seem to be under the impression that color blind people cannot see certain colors at all. This is not the case. Most color blind people are able to see things just as clearly as the rest of the ...
- 9,851
6
votes
Colorblindness-friendly colors called "green", "blue", "yellow", and "red"
While it is commendable to be considering this factor, you also have to think about the bigger picture here. That is, you are trying to make a game that you want as many people as possible to be ...
- 7,061
5
votes
Accepted
Accessibility color difference best practices
The W3C Techniques For Accessibility Evaluation And Repair Tools says:
Two colors provide good color visibility if the brightness difference
and the color difference between the two colors are ...
- 71k
5
votes
Colorblindness-friendly colors called "green", "blue", "yellow", and "red"
In science/data science, the viridis color palattes have become pretty popular over the last few years for creating colorblind friendly figures. It's targeted for R programmers, but here's a link to a ...
- 151
5
votes
Does Wordle's high contrast mode confuse the meanings of the colors for colorblind users?
I'm not sure I understand your question correctly, but I've the impression that you assume that people with color blindness see the same as people with "normal" vision. If this is the case, ...
- 37.3k
4
votes
A UI/UX developer with color-blindness. Good or Bad idea or maybe a challenge?
I have been color deficient (trouble seeing shades within colors) and worked extensively in both newspaper production (working with million dollar ad spreads that had to print EXACTLY per our 4-color ...
- 655
4
votes
Icon coloring for color blindness
"Green turns to grey" is not strictly true - For Deuteranopes (the most common form of colour blindness) green turns to a sort of murky brown colour that would be distinguishable from grey. You can ...
- 14.2k
4
votes
Accepted
What is the thought behind veg and non veg icons?
It's not a universal standard but a system imposed specifically in India by the Food Safety and Standards Act (2006).
...A declaration to this effect shall be made by a symbol and colour
code so ...
- 14.4k
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible