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UI design for software developers. Part 1, Colors

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Re: UI design for software developers. Part 1, Colors

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If you are reading this, Jerard, please please please consider the accessibility impact of colour, specifically on colour blind people. You should test your app's proposed colour with an accessibility-checking tool. You should also avoid using certain colours to distinguish between different things.

Re: UI design for software developers. Part 1, Colors

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UX advice for UI designers giving advice to software developers: Get a free cert from https://letsencrypt.org/ so my basic half-assed digital defenses don't block your site. I'm not clicking through until you do sorry. Good luck with the multipart series.

It's no use if you let it expire like they did.

Re: UI design for software developers. Part 1, Colors

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If you are reading this, Jerard, please please please consider the accessibility impact of colour, specifically on colour blind people. You should test your app's proposed colour with an accessibility-checking tool. You should also avoid using certain colours to distinguish between different things.

yep. indeed. For example, color contrast should be considered when developing a color palette.

it sucks to readjust the app if you discover late in the development that the palette is not having enough contrast for some parts of the ui.

Re: UI design for software developers. Part 1, Colors

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UX advice for UI designers giving advice to software developers: Get a free cert from https://letsencrypt.org/ so my basic half-assed digital defenses don't block your site. I'm not clicking through until you do sorry. Good luck with the multipart series.

It's no use if you let it expire like they did.

Out of the box LE make it hard to actually achieve that most basic of calendar fails.
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