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The connection between pretty and good posited either in the linked article or one of its links (perhaps http://www.uiandus.com/blog/2009/7/27/realizations-of-r
by brehaut 17y ago
The connection between pretty and good posited either in the linked article or one of its links (perhaps http://www.uiandus.com/blog/2009/7/27/realizations-of-rounded-rectangles.html http://www.uiandus.com/blog/2009/7/27/realizations-of-rounde... ?) is that the cognitive workload required to process visual cues is (inversely) related to the qualities that are often perceived as 'attractive', e.g. round rectangles, non-garish color schemes, sensible type choices etc.
- lsc 17y agoheh. well, my idea of 'pretty' is probably so far off from yours that I wouldn't know. I'm halfway colorblind, so all your well-tuned colorschemes are for naught. A friend made me a (presumably really nice) multicolored pastel logo for prgmr.com. I thought looked like a yellow circle. Apparently, it had four different colors. But yeah; I mean, I've seen a lot of really bad websites that have obviously had a lot of effort put into making them pretty. Remember the 'click here to enter' intro screens? or flash-based websites? One certainly can be pretty without being usable.
- Qz 17y agoI'm curious... do you have a hard time distinguishing the color magenta/fuchsia from other colors? Or does it stand out pretty well?
- lsc 17y agoI had to look up what that meant; but yeah, uh, I can see purple, but I can have a hard time distinguishing between different purples. In general, the pastel colors look, well, pretty similar.