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What do colors mean to your users

60 points by zmitri 14y ago

ThomPete 14y ago
As always with aesthetics. Different cultures have different ways of interpreting it.
ElliotMingee 14y ago
Maybe this is simply personal opinion, but I generally find it difficult to take aesthetic advice from a website with a relatively uninspired or outdated design like this. Perhaps I just have bad taste
- columbo 14y ago
  Judging by the credits ( http://www.joehallock.com/edu/COM498/credits.html http://www.joehallock.com/edu/COM498/credits.html ) I think this was created in 2003.
K2h 14y ago
does that mean the denver broncos football team is then fun, high quality, we trust you to win, but we hate the colors? thats what i get when i translate the blue and orange team colors against those pie charts. http://www.denverbroncos.com/ http://www.denverbroncos.com/ the translation also works for GE (blue and white)
uwemaurer 14y ago
These 3D pie charts are the worst. http://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Pie-Charts-Are-Bad/ http://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Pie-Charts-Are-Bad/
panacea 14y ago
Ow. That site is unreadable.
aymeric 14y ago
So, according to this, your startup dominant color should be Blue?
- manmal 14y ago
  It seems so.. it might be the reason why Zuck chose blue and still sticks to it, although some people argue it's terrible and childish.
manmal 14y ago
I have observed myself that men tend to hate purple as a UI background color, while women like it. I have not seen that many high-quality sites with a deep purple backbround, but when I did, the designer was female. These numbers got something.
currywurst 14y ago
I think that these perceptions can be influenced. For example, if Ferrari runs ads with only its yellow models for the next 10 years, more people might start associating Yellow with Speed, instead of an overwhelming vote for red
- camo 14y ago
  color association is an evolutionary development and wasn't invented by Ferrari. look at the world of nature for evidence. the first Ferrari was yellow anyway, their first racing cars used the Italian national racing color which is "Rosso Corsa".
Negitivefrags 14y ago
The rest of our site is brown/gold but we chose blue for our payment page for exactly this reason. http://i.imgur.com/2WcOF.jpg http://i.imgur.com/2WcOF.jpg (You have to be logged in to see the payment page so I took a screen shot) The pattern at the bottom is also designed to invoke the feeling of banking. It's kind of like the patterns you see on cheques or credit cards.

60 points by zmitri 14y ago

As always with aesthetics. Different cultures have different ways of interpreting it.

Maybe this is simply personal opinion, but I generally find it difficult to take aesthetic advice from a website with a relatively uninspired or outdated design like this. Perhaps I just have bad taste

columbo 14y ago
Judging by the credits ( http://www.joehallock.com/edu/COM498/credits.html http://www.joehallock.com/edu/COM498/credits.html ) I think this was created in 2003.

K2h 14y ago

does that mean the denver broncos football team is then fun, high quality, we trust you to win, but we hate the colors? thats what i get when i translate the blue and orange team colors against those pie charts. http://www.denverbroncos.com/ http://www.denverbroncos.com/ the translation also works for GE (blue and white)

uwemaurer 14y ago

These 3D pie charts are the worst. http://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Pie-Charts-Are-Bad/ http://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Pie-Charts-Are-Bad/

panacea 14y ago

Ow. That site is unreadable.

aymeric 14y ago

So, according to this, your startup dominant color should be Blue?

manmal 14y ago
It seems so.. it might be the reason why Zuck chose blue and still sticks to it, although some people argue it's terrible and childish.

manmal 14y ago

I have observed myself that men tend to hate purple as a UI background color, while women like it. I have not seen that many high-quality sites with a deep purple backbround, but when I did, the designer was female. These numbers got something.

currywurst 14y ago

I think that these perceptions can be influenced. For example, if Ferrari runs ads with only its yellow models for the next 10 years, more people might start associating Yellow with Speed, instead of an overwhelming vote for red

camo 14y ago
color association is an evolutionary development and wasn't invented by Ferrari. look at the world of nature for evidence. the first Ferrari was yellow anyway, their first racing cars used the Italian national racing color which is "Rosso Corsa".

Negitivefrags 14y ago

The rest of our site is brown/gold but we chose blue for our payment page for exactly this reason. http://i.imgur.com/2WcOF.jpg http://i.imgur.com/2WcOF.jpg (You have to be logged in to see the payment page so I took a screen shot) The pattern at the bottom is also designed to invoke the feeling of banking. It's kind of like the patterns you see on cheques or credit cards.