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Re: Colors of the iOS7 App Store

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Post by Trombone5 » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

GuiA wrote: post #9

This is super neat, but the top 5 icons is a very small sample to draw any conclusions from. If you wrote a script to fetch the icons and do the subsequent analysis, it should be trivial to modify it to fetch a few hundred icons in each category instead, which should yield more accurate results. You may find out, for example, that a few colors are just as equally represented and that there is no real "dominant" color…

Yeah, the article quite a clear example of a blind application of statistical tools, the only useful thing being their idea to do quantitative design research. The top five is only a reasonable selection if the search is for patterns linking the top contenders per category. Trying to find indication of what positively influences a top ranking in a certain category without considering what those outside the top have done is astonishingly wrong.

Re: Colors of the iOS7 App Store

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Post by leviathan » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 6:03 PM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #6

chrisBob wrote: post #2

Should this impact my icon design, or is it just a representation of the most popular apps. Is there a good way to separate the two?

When looking at social blue is overwhelming. I would go with something other than blue as it would obviously stand out in the listings.

This xkcd came to mind: http://xkcd.com/993/

Re: Colors of the iOS7 App Store

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Post by PaulJulius » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 7:17 PM UTC

GuiA wrote: post #9

This is super neat, but the top 5 icons is a very small sample to draw any conclusions from. If you wrote a script to fetch the icons and do the subsequent analysis, it should be trivial to modify it to fetch a few hundred icons in each category instead, which should yield more accurate results. You may find out, for example, that a few colors are just as equally represented and that there is no real "dominant" color…

And when you're showing the 5 dominant colors from the top 5 apps, you're just going to end up with the dominant color from each app. The best example of this is in Education, where the lime green of DuoLingo appears as one of the top 5 colors despite it being the only app with that color. If anything, if I were just looking at Luminosity, DuoLingo and Quizlet together I'd conclude that there isn't a dominant color for Education apps.

Re: Colors of the iOS7 App Store

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Post by dalek2point3 » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 9:26 PM UTC

Trombone5 wrote: post #11

GuiA wrote: post #9

This is super neat, but the top 5 icons is a very small sample to draw any conclusions from. If you wrote a script to fetch the icons and do the subsequent analysis, it should be trivial to modify it to fetch a few hundred icons in each category instead, which should yield more accurate results. You may find out, for example, that a few colors are just as equally represented and that there is no real "dominant" color…

Yeah, the article quite a clear example of a blind application of statistical tools, the only useful thing being their idea to do quantitative design research. The top five is only a reasonable selection if the search is for patterns linking the top contenders per category. Trying to find indication of what positively influences a top ranking in a certain category without considering what those outside the top have d…

+1 -- although their execution gets a 10/10. Very prettily done, but the actual content is pretty useless. Sorry, :(