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Entire countries like France do not use qwerty, and in Japan the taxi light is not an exception, rather it is fairly common. The traffic light IS the exception
by franciscop 7y ago
Entire countries like France do not use qwerty, and in Japan the taxi light is not an exception, rather it is fairly common. The traffic light IS the exception here, and it is definitedly not accepted that red=bad and green=good here! If anything, I'd say that red here represents the primary action.
- EForEndeavour 7y agoHence my mention of "qwerty-like." France's AZERTY is a variation on qwerty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY#History). In modern UX/UI, red is universally understood to mean delete, close, stop, error, and similar "bad" or destructive things. If you localize OS X to Japanese, does the "close window" button change from red to something else? If you localize GitHub to Japanese, does its irreversible repo deletion confirmation prompt appear in green? Is the "proceed to GitHub" button at https://github.co.jp/ https://github.co.jp/ green or red?