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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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Post by Jerard_Victor »

KineticLensman wrote: post #3

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.

hey, I do reading all the comments here. Frankly speaking, I didn't think about accessibility impact when I was playing with color palettes, but it turned out that Google does such assessment automatically when an app is being reviewed. Thankfully in my case, I didn't have any accessibility-related issues, but this is a valid point and probably it's better to do it during the mocking stage.

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

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Post by Brajeshwar »

inquirerofsorts wrote: post #2

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.

Or let the free tier of Cloudflare do that.

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

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Post by capableweb »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #12
inquirerofsorts wrote: post #2

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.

Or let the free tier of Cloudflare do that.

Or if the author don't want to let Cloudflare control their entire domain and give away their users' data, since the author seems to self-host with nginx: Use certbot and python-certbot-nginx, very easy to setup and maintain

- https://www.nginx.com/blog/using-free-ssltls-certificates-fr...

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Post by kevsim »

baxtr wrote: post #13

The best resource I have found for devs who want to improve their design skills is (1). The article below is even about coloring schemes of apps. Very insightful. (1) https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palet...

I've had going through RefactoringUI on my todo list for a very long time. I'm working at a small startup [0] on a fairly complex product and design resources is always a challenge. Being able to make some of the simple decisions myself feels like it could be a super power.

0: https://kitemaker.co, super fast, highly collaborative issue tracker

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

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Post by capableweb »

inquirerofsorts wrote: post #8
ithronmellon wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As far as I know, Let's Encrypt themselves do nothing to prevent you from hitting the expiry date with your certificates, but then I'm not sure what you mean with "Out of the box Let's Encrypt".

Usually you run Let's Encrypt with something like EFF's certbot, and then you certainly get lots of help to have up-to-date certificates, as long as you installed it in a way so it automatically runs (via cron or whatever you use).

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

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Post by Jerard_Victor »

inquirerofsorts wrote: post #2

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.

sorry for that, will add SSL as soon as possible
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