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Send the offending designers to http://contrastrebellion.com/
How does that help the situation?
It shows nice designs with good contrast.
Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The problem is the contrast ratios. The contrast between 0% black and 100% white on a good screen is so high, it physically causes pain, even migraines. Maybe that means you need to turn down your screen's brightness.
No, that’d be exactly the wrong solution. Because then displaying color-calibrated content on your display (such as movies, games, photos) is also completely distorted. Instead, we need a way to specify CSS colors relative to a colorspace and contrast ratio.
>CSS colors
It's called sRGB and it supposedly has a "black point" which is not entirely black. Nobody uses it though, on photos it would be useless. Also for me black on white is perfectly fine in a well lit room. White on pitch black is indeed problematic. Anyway, it could be a user/browser preference instead of a designer preference.
Lowering brightness shouldn't distort color-calibration too. You are supposed to match your brightness to the surrounding lighting too.
Re: Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, that’d be exactly the wrong solution. Because then displaying color-calibrated content on your display (such as movies, games, photos) is also completely distorted. Instead, we need a way to specify CSS colors relative to a colorspace and contrast ratio.
>CSS colors It's called sRGB and it supposedly has a "black point" which is not entirely black. Nobody uses it though, on photos it would be useless. Also for me black on white is perfectly fine in a well lit room. White on pitch black is indeed problematic. Anyway, it could be a user/browser preference instead of a designer preference. Lowering brightness shouldn't distort color-calibration too. You are supposed to…
> Lowering brightness shouldn't distort color-calibration too. You are supposed to match your brightness to the surrounding lighting too.
Correct, but it requires recalibration if you lower the brightness (as no screen has a perfectly flat curve)
Re: Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly
#114As sort of a sidenote: websites about UX seem to have the worst UX. Clicking the link, I'm not only met by a social sharing bar that uses 1/6th of the screen and screws scrolling up (because for some reason it should follow through my scrolling but somehow only be visible when scrolling upwards), but a faux-chat window overlaying the content where a Tom is asking me how he can help me. Not at all, thank you. At least…
> As sort of a sidenote: websites about UX seem to have the worst UX. Clicking the link, I'm not only met by a social sharing bar that uses 1/6th of the screen This comment anecdotally reinforces my impression that UX people today (I assume you're either a UX people, or a people interested in UX) have a bias for full-width sites and browsers. I rarely run my browser full-width (and I think many UX/UI designers rarely…
> This comment anecdotally reinforces my impression that UX people today (I assume you're either a UX people, or a people interested in UX) have a bias for full-width sites and browsers.
I used it on a cell phone. My choices there are limited to landscape or portrait mode, both of which behave awfully in subtly different ways. They obviously went out of their way to make a mobile version of the layout, though. They just didn't think it through, because they suck at UX.
And yes, since I am a user, I am interested in my experience. I can't say that I have a bias for full-width sites and browsers, but even if I did, why should my experience be worse in full screen than in a smaller window? Why should it be worse on a phone? The content is text. You read it from left to right, from the top to the bottom. Laying it out in a way that doesn't inspire self harm is not rocket science. Despite these vapid UX blogs making their snake oil salesmanship out to be valuable and insightful, they've failed to find a solution for the most basic problem. They can't even lay text out without having useless crap hovering over it. It's like calling yourself a plumber when you can't even flush your toilet.
Frankly, I'd rather side scroll, because at least then I'd have to make a conscious effort to see all the non-content.
Re: Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does that help the situation?
It shows nice designs with good contrast.
Actually, I misread what you'd written.
I read it as "send offending designs to..." - like it was a 'name and shame' kind of site instead of the reasonably helpful resource that it is.
My apologies.