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I really love this idea, but I have a big problem with colour selectors. I'm not sure if it's unique to me or a common problem, but I can visualise the right co

I really love this idea, but I have a big problem with colour selectors. I'm not sure if it's unique to me or a common problem, but I can visualise the right colour (and could pick it out of a line up) but when playing with a colour selector all colours blur into one and it becomes very difficult for me to differentiate colours effectively. I could look at 100 different Coca Cola logos and point out which has the right red, but trying to colour it myself is an impossible task. Even now I played the Coca Cola logo 3 times, even after seeing exactly the right colour I can't get it right on the selector (my score every time was between 73 and 77). Anyway, actual feedback: For some reason some of the logos don't load, although checking the console I see the following errors so I assume it's server issues: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (INTERNAL SERVER ERROR) http://brandseenapp.com/success?score=0&game=Basic&level=yahoo http://brandseenapp.com/success?score=0&game=Basic&l... Uncaught TypeError: Property 'width' of object #<HTMLImageElement> is not a function

munchor 14y ago
It's a bit about luck I guess. I got 94 on the Coca Cola one, and in the end my average was 40%.
modeless 14y ago
This game could actually be a great way to A/B test different types of color picker to see which ones work better for the general population.
lelandbatey 14y ago
I also saw quite a few errors, such as the logo I was supposed to be coloring being very out of place from the center of the page, or off to the side. Also, my "average" score seems to have been calculated in a very odd way. It looks like this: http://puu.sh/LniU http://puu.sh/LniU
- imkevinxu 14y ago
  I just did the math, your average was 77.11 (total/9) which rounds to 77% :) Aware of the centering issue, looking into it thanks!
  - lelandbatey 14y ago
    Ah, I thought the 3.14 was a joke score. NVM then.
    - imkevinxu 14y ago
      Haha if you get a 0 it's either 0 or 3.14 you get.
      - BHSPitMonkey 14y ago
        * I picked a color for IBM that was almost perfect (it barely darkened just a bit when I submitted), but it gave me a 3.14. * Dropbox's logo is colored pretty differently depending on where it's displayed (I colored mine lighter, like the system tray icon, rather than darker like the logo on their homepage). * For Apple, I tried just submitting without making any changes because it looked pretty close to correct already. I was given a 0%, even though it only barely changed.
p4bl0 14y ago
I got 85% for the Coca Cola logo on the first try and only from memory. On this same first try at the end of the session my average score is 80% (I got the wrong blue (I thought it was darker than it actually is) for IBM and got 47% for it, lowering quite a bit the average). Also I'm not a designer or anything close to that, I'm a computer science student. This to say I don't think it is an "impossible task". EDIT: just got a friend (also not a designer, and with an (in my opinion) extremely bad taste in colors :-p) doing the test and he got 78% average, with 100% for Apple (he's not an Apple user) and Shell, 99% for Batman, 97% for Coca Cola, but 0% for Dropbox ^^. So this confirms that it is far from impossible.
imkevinxu 14y ago
Thanks criticsquid! Yeah the whole realm of color is an interesting space with color profiles and logos that have changed their tint slightly over the years. We tried to pick the most "official" color (usually from Wikipedia) but can look into it more as this was just a 24 hour hack. As for the errors, thanks! May I ask what OS/Browser you're using? I fixed the width error but the GET request is still being sent so I don't know why it's saying that, hmm....
mnicole 14y ago
Agreed, I personally think an HSL colorpicker would work better here, but I'd like to see/try others.
- AriX 14y ago
  Well, this is basically an HSL color picker... minus the S part. What specifically would you change about the current color UI?
  - mnicole 14y ago
    A three-slider HSL color-picker. It was really hard for my co-workers and I to pick the right hue without worrying about dealing with the saturation too. I'm used to color-pickers so it wasn't as bad for me, but they kept thinking they could use more inner/desaturated colors and then just tweak the darkness to accomodate for the lightness they didn't realize was happening.
jakobe 14y ago
Maybe your screen isn't calibrated properly? I got 97% for Coca Cola on the first try.

munchor 14y ago

It's a bit about luck I guess. I got 94 on the Coca Cola one, and in the end my average was 40%.

modeless 14y ago

This game could actually be a great way to A/B test different types of color picker to see which ones work better for the general population.

lelandbatey 14y ago

I also saw quite a few errors, such as the logo I was supposed to be coloring being very out of place from the center of the page, or off to the side. Also, my "average" score seems to have been calculated in a very odd way. It looks like this: http://puu.sh/LniU http://puu.sh/LniU

imkevinxu 14y ago
I just did the math, your average was 77.11 (total/9) which rounds to 77% :) Aware of the centering issue, looking into it thanks!
- lelandbatey 14y ago
  Ah, I thought the 3.14 was a joke score. NVM then.
  - imkevinxu 14y ago
    Haha if you get a 0 it's either 0 or 3.14 you get.
    - BHSPitMonkey 14y ago
      * I picked a color for IBM that was almost perfect (it barely darkened just a bit when I submitted), but it gave me a 3.14. * Dropbox's logo is colored pretty differently depending on where it's displayed (I colored mine lighter, like the system tray icon, rather than darker like the logo on their homepage). * For Apple, I tried just submitting without making any changes because it looked pretty close to correct already. I was given a 0%, even though it only barely changed.

p4bl0 14y ago

I got 85% for the Coca Cola logo on the first try and only from memory. On this same first try at the end of the session my average score is 80% (I got the wrong blue (I thought it was darker than it actually is) for IBM and got 47% for it, lowering quite a bit the average). Also I'm not a designer or anything close to that, I'm a computer science student. This to say I don't think it is an "impossible task". EDIT: just got a friend (also not a designer, and with an (in my opinion) extremely bad taste in colors :-p) doing the test and he got 78% average, with 100% for Apple (he's not an Apple user) and Shell, 99% for Batman, 97% for Coca Cola, but 0% for Dropbox ^^. So this confirms that it is far from impossible.

imkevinxu 14y ago

Thanks criticsquid! Yeah the whole realm of color is an interesting space with color profiles and logos that have changed their tint slightly over the years. We tried to pick the most "official" color (usually from Wikipedia) but can look into it more as this was just a 24 hour hack. As for the errors, thanks! May I ask what OS/Browser you're using? I fixed the width error but the GET request is still being sent so I don't know why it's saying that, hmm....

mnicole 14y ago

Agreed, I personally think an HSL colorpicker would work better here, but I'd like to see/try others.

AriX 14y ago
Well, this is basically an HSL color picker... minus the S part. What specifically would you change about the current color UI?
- mnicole 14y ago
  A three-slider HSL color-picker. It was really hard for my co-workers and I to pick the right hue without worrying about dealing with the saturation too. I'm used to color-pickers so it wasn't as bad for me, but they kept thinking they could use more inner/desaturated colors and then just tweak the darkness to accomodate for the lightness they didn't realize was happening.

jakobe 14y ago

Maybe your screen isn't calibrated properly? I got 97% for Coca Cola on the first try.