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A few decades ago, we chose the most awful color combinations for the UI of an internal system to encourage the designer to get on with it (they wore multiple h

A few decades ago, we chose the most awful color combinations for the UI of an internal system to encourage the designer to get on with it (they wore multiple hats). By the time I'd left a year or so later, the people using the system had not only accepted these disturbing choices, but claimed to have grown fond of them.

breckenedge 2y ago
Stockholm syndrome
shaftway 2y ago
Google's internal Memegen platform used to have a disturbing amount of #FF00FF in the UI. Since it was internal and not well funded, there was no designer associated with it. The only full-time engineer at the time asked a 20%-er if #FF00FF looked good, partially as a joke, but not knowing the 20%-er was color blind. The 20%-er responded with a strong positive. The full-timer thought that the 20%-er was saying that it would be funny to launch that way as a joke, so all accents in the UI became memegenta. Source: was a memegeneer.
- PyWoody 2y ago
  What in the world is going on with Google search. I Google'd "#FF00FF" to see how bad it was but was instead returned with a rather pleasant blue. Confused, I tried again. I got a completely different color. Same exact search. Different color. I've done the same, simple "#FF00FF" search and I'm up to five different colors with none of them being magenta. How do you fuck something so simple as a HEX color code up? (Hilarious story by the way. For a hot second when I saw the blue come up I thought maybe I was colorblind, too.)
  - Charlie_e 2y ago
    You're right, that's really weird... Initially didn't see that 'cause I don't usually include the '#' in my searches so it just comes up with the colorhexa result (which is clearly more accurate lol)
  - rurp 2y ago
    Hah, I just tried it and got a nice green color. Wtf Google? They really are phoning it in on all levels these days. DDG showed the correct color fwiw.
    - TheNewsIsHere 2y ago
      Perhaps it’s just the Bard painting an artistic impression of Gemini using AI.
  - shaftway 2y ago
    There's a long history of Memegen trolling for the lulz. Here's a color link so nobody else has to struggle: https://www.colorhexa.com/ff00ff https://www.colorhexa.com/ff00ff

breckenedge 2y ago

Stockholm syndrome

shaftway 2y ago

Google's internal Memegen platform used to have a disturbing amount of #FF00FF in the UI. Since it was internal and not well funded, there was no designer associated with it. The only full-time engineer at the time asked a 20%-er if #FF00FF looked good, partially as a joke, but not knowing the 20%-er was color blind. The 20%-er responded with a strong positive. The full-timer thought that the 20%-er was saying that it would be funny to launch that way as a joke, so all accents in the UI became memegenta. Source: was a memegeneer.

PyWoody 2y ago
What in the world is going on with Google search. I Google'd "#FF00FF" to see how bad it was but was instead returned with a rather pleasant blue. Confused, I tried again. I got a completely different color. Same exact search. Different color. I've done the same, simple "#FF00FF" search and I'm up to five different colors with none of them being magenta. How do you fuck something so simple as a HEX color code up? (Hilarious story by the way. For a hot second when I saw the blue come up I thought maybe I was colorblind, too.)
- Charlie_e 2y ago
  You're right, that's really weird... Initially didn't see that 'cause I don't usually include the '#' in my searches so it just comes up with the colorhexa result (which is clearly more accurate lol)
- rurp 2y ago
  Hah, I just tried it and got a nice green color. Wtf Google? They really are phoning it in on all levels these days. DDG showed the correct color fwiw.
  - TheNewsIsHere 2y ago
    Perhaps it’s just the Bard painting an artistic impression of Gemini using AI.
- shaftway 2y ago
  There's a long history of Memegen trolling for the lulz. Here's a color link so nobody else has to struggle: https://www.colorhexa.com/ff00ff https://www.colorhexa.com/ff00ff