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To: Joe Lyddon who wrote (16450)3/20/2003 11:33:34 AM
From: (Bob) ZumbrunnenRead Replies (2) of 29526
 
In a similar vein, I've seen a few websites about basic web design who list the top 10 important things to keep in mind when designing websites. Mostly things like "A ton of animated graphics aren't cute; they're annoying." and stuff like that.

Most of them mention color-blindness. That websites should be designed with the understanding that a large number of their visitors will be colorblind to at least a minor degree, making things like red text on a green background a real bad idea. As if it wasn't already.

I've heard it said that as many of 30% of all men have at least a small degree of colorblindness. It's quite rare among women.

Being very color-blind myself has kept me honest when it comes to colors. It's for this reason that I do things like allowing each user to pick what color typos show up in on the Preview screen. For me, it's useless to show them in red because I don't notice they're not black unless I get real close to the screen and scrutinize every word. In my own case, I use #1111ff (which is the default) for typos because it works especially well for me since I use #dddddd (not the default) for my message box color.

It's also my color-blindness that leads to me typically making really drab interfaces. My personalized interface is mostly different shades of gray. I really suck at interfaces, especially when it comes to aesthetics, so I prefer to make it possible for each user to set things up the way they prefer. Not an approach I heartily endorse, though. It's programming and resource intensive. If I remember right, it took me something like 3 months to accomplish it.
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