Road weary and introspective
Creating accessible color contrast A while back, I wrote about how color blindness can affect the implied meaning in our usage of color. The use of stoplight colors for status is less meaningful if your eyes aren’t helping you distinguish between red and green. We got around this problem through the use of meaningful shapes…
When discussing design, color is often treated as a purely emotional or psychological aspect, and it can be hard to quantify. There are a few places where certain uses of color convey meaning in an easily understood way. A group of colors almost universally understood are Stoplight or Traffic Signal colors. My daughter would sing…
(This article was written for the Bazaarvoice User Experience newsletter, b:focused. Cover Photo by Kelly Sikkema.) One of the biggest hurdles to overcome when beginning to design and develop inclusive products and services is the fear that including everyone is an impossible task. There are so many things people to consider that it can feel insurmountable. Changing…
Let’s understand what those 6 character codes we’ve been putting in our spec and CSS actually mean.
Just a quick update and request for the 5 of you who read the site: Recently, “Trusera”:http://trusera.com was nominated for the “South by South West 2009 Interactive Festival’s People’s Choice Award”:https://secure.sxsw.com/peoples_choice/. Yep, that’s a mouthful, but it’s also pretty damn flattering for us. Well, you know what would be even more flattering (and would look…
As I currently work on a minor new feature for the Trusera website, I’m reminded for the fourth or fifth time today that 12 November marks my one year Trusera “birthday.” It seems bizarre to realise that exactly one year ago, I was sitting—eyes wide, brain trickling out my ear—at the end of my first…
Like many in my field, I was intrigued by the nifty “Coming Soon” page for “Silverback”:http://silverbackapp.com when word started pinging around the design-o-sphere. A page with a cool parallax effect (all the rage for a few months there), an illustration of a rather nerdy-looking gorilla (by the ever-talented “Jon Hicks”:http://hicksdesign.co.uk/), and a notification sign up.…
Let’s just say last night was a busy night here in Seattle. We officially launched the all-new “Trusera.com”:http://trusera.com at 9pm Pacific Time. == The devs running scripts to migrate old site info to new site == Not only is it an all-new site (new code, new design, lots of new features), it’s our official exit…
I’ll admit I’m a bit obsessed with good podcasts (and I’ve always loved video tutorials, so therefor screencasts are a godsend). I probably look for new podcasts to subscribe to every week. Not that I listen to them all the time (some I add and listen to once before discarding), and frankly some just annoy…
Have you had your website or “logo”:http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2007/04/01/simplefools.html ripped off before? Kinda ticks you off, right? Well, imagine having more or less everything about your burger franchise, down to the colours and the menus, copied. A “local burger place”:http://www.ksl.com/?sid=1282451&nid=148 is drumming up huge business because they are “just like In&Out.” Chadder’s of American Fork, UT, is…
