Comments on: Colour Blindness Design Change http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/04/23/colour-blindness-design-change/ A blog about our thoughts on entrepreneurship, teamwork, our services, the Web and anything we find interesting. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:26:59 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: FeaturePics Images http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/04/23/colour-blindness-design-change/comment-page-1/#comment-42722 FeaturePics Images Fri, 25 May 2007 22:49:43 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/04/23/colour-blindness-design-change/#comment-42722 A very good tool to see your web site through colorblind eyes at http://colorfilter.wickline.org/ Information about images that are friendly to color blind people: http://www.featurepics.com/Editorial/Images-friendly-color-blind-people.aspx A very good tool to see your web site through colorblind eyes at

http://colorfilter.wickline.org/

Information about images that are friendly to color blind people:

http://www.featurepics.com/Editorial/Images-friendly-color-blind-people.aspx

]]> By: Ian Smith http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/04/23/colour-blindness-design-change/comment-page-1/#comment-39828 Ian Smith Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:28:52 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/04/23/colour-blindness-design-change/#comment-39828 I have to agree with Steve- this is just a better way to present the info - even putting the color issue aside. I have to agree with Steve- this is just a better way to present the info – even putting the color issue aside.

]]> By: Jeff Sarmiento http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/04/23/colour-blindness-design-change/comment-page-1/#comment-39752 Jeff Sarmiento Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:41:04 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/04/23/colour-blindness-design-change/#comment-39752 Thanks for the comments guys. Steve: We thought about using colour coded bars but there were a couple reasons why we went with all green. 1. Design wise we just like how the green bars looked. It was cleaner and easier to read. 2. All green helped us elminate the use of the legend (it's not in the screenshot above but it use to be at the bottom of the report card page). 3. The colour green is much more positive. In the case where you are part of the bottom third the orange may come off a bit harsh to some people. We don't want to give users the message that they are doing a bad job but just where they stand compared to thosein their profession. Thanks for the comments guys.

Steve: We thought about using colour coded bars but there were a couple reasons why we went with all green.

1. Design wise we just like how the green bars looked. It was cleaner and easier to read.
2. All green helped us elminate the use of the legend (it’s not in the screenshot above but it use to be at the bottom of the report card page).
3. The colour green is much more positive. In the case where you are part of the bottom third the orange may come off a bit harsh to some people. We don’t want to give users the message that they are doing a bad job but just where they stand compared to thosein their profession.

]]> By: Steve http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/04/23/colour-blindness-design-change/comment-page-1/#comment-39744 Steve Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:37:22 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/04/23/colour-blindness-design-change/#comment-39744 I think the new design is flat-out more usable, regardless of the color sensitivity but it is very cool that you responded to people that had trouble viewing it. Not that it needs changing at all, but why didn't you go with the variable-width bars *AND* color changes? That way the 19 of 20 that don't have color senstivity could interpret the information in a qualitative way (all green, partly green/some orange) as well as a quantitative way (width of the bar). Thoughts? I think the new design is flat-out more usable, regardless of the color sensitivity but it is very cool that you responded to people that had trouble viewing it. Not that it needs changing at all, but why didn’t you go with the variable-width bars *AND* color changes? That way the 19 of 20 that don’t have color senstivity could interpret the information in a qualitative way (all green, partly green/some orange) as well as a quantitative way (width of the bar). Thoughts?

]]> By: James http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/04/23/colour-blindness-design-change/comment-page-1/#comment-39722 James Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:03:16 +0000 http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/04/23/colour-blindness-design-change/#comment-39722 Wow, great online tool for color blindness. I would have never known! Checked my own site and it's still viewable. Wow, great online tool for color blindness. I would have never known! Checked my own site and it’s still viewable.

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