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Haters gonna hate. I like it. Those are so similar to the colors I use, not too saturated, not too dim, not too bright, not too loud. (And it's hard to find a g

Haters gonna hate. I like it. Those are so similar to the colors I use, not too saturated, not too dim, not too bright, not too loud. (And it's hard to find a good yellow) It's not made for the average person it's made for people who understand design and don't need explanation. It's a micro-web-app. Click on the colors to copy them to the clipboard. That's it. Man, are you guys going to criticize him/her because they didn't have a call to action button? There's a time and place for those things, and a time and place for these micro-web-apps. If you guys keep shitting all over people's side projects they're going to stop posting them here. The goal is constructive criticism.

Evbn 13y ago
UX designers should understand their audience when they publish (or share) content. The submitter should have written an intro.
- arianvanp 13y ago
  Funnily enough I blindly clicked the site and immediately knew what it did and what it was for. I don't see the UX fail here. it's actually very good (to me)
orclev 13y ago
Good UX should be intuitive, if you've done it right you don't need to explain what it does. The fact that so many people are utterly confused by this site shows that clearly it wasn't done right. If it isn't intuitive that's fine, it can still be good UX, so long as you add proper explanation, context, and callouts to make it obvious what the various interactions are. This site is neither obvious, nor does it have proper callouts to explain the interactions, which is why everyone is so confused. In short, it's bad UX, on top of a tool of questionable use to begin with. It's a single fixed color swatch. It would make a nice component on a larger site, say one of the myriad ones that allow you to select from a large collection of user submitted pallets, but as a standalone it comes across as kind of a flop. If you post something you've done here, it's because you think you've created something others will find useful/interesting in some way. If it turns out that most people don't that just means you were wrong about how useful/interesting you expected it to be. You can do one of two things then, either try to fix/improve your effort and re-submit it later on to hopefully better result, or else abandon the idea and try to come up with something better. Either one is fine. What you can't expect is that people will heap praise on something they consider either boring, useless, or flawed in some way. The fact that people are taking the time to call out any perceived flaws is a service to the creator, its up to them to read others opinions, evaluate them, and decide how they want to react to them (either by accepting them as valid criticisms and working to fix it, or else rejecting them for whatever reason). Ultimately if your "side project" isn't in a state yet to be evaluated by a large readership it probably shouldn't be posted here unless you're looking for feedback on how to fix it. That's the purpose of a site like this, it's to aggregate/discover interesting content, it isn't a dumping ground for every half finished project on the internet. I've got dozens of "side projects" that I'd never dream of posting here because frankly they aren't worth wasting peoples time with.
- forwardslash 13y ago
  Was the "Why?" link not there when you went to the site?
Samuel_Michon 13y ago
“I like it. Those are so similar to the colors I use, not too saturated, not too dim, not too bright, not too loud. (And it's hard to find a good yellow)” OP didn’t choose the colors, they’re copied from Flat UI (hence the name of the site).
__david__ 13y ago
> Click on the colors to copy them to the clipboard. If only it actually did that. It was a no-go for me with Firefox 21.
- ahmetsulek 13y ago
  I have Firefox 20 and it says that it's up to date :/
  - __david__ 13y ago
    I'm on the beta-track: 21 is the latest beta. You have the latest official release.

Evbn 13y ago

UX designers should understand their audience when they publish (or share) content. The submitter should have written an intro.

arianvanp 13y ago
Funnily enough I blindly clicked the site and immediately knew what it did and what it was for. I don't see the UX fail here. it's actually very good (to me)

orclev 13y ago

Good UX should be intuitive, if you've done it right you don't need to explain what it does. The fact that so many people are utterly confused by this site shows that clearly it wasn't done right. If it isn't intuitive that's fine, it can still be good UX, so long as you add proper explanation, context, and callouts to make it obvious what the various interactions are. This site is neither obvious, nor does it have proper callouts to explain the interactions, which is why everyone is so confused. In short, it's bad UX, on top of a tool of questionable use to begin with. It's a single fixed color swatch. It would make a nice component on a larger site, say one of the myriad ones that allow you to select from a large collection of user submitted pallets, but as a standalone it comes across as kind of a flop. If you post something you've done here, it's because you think you've created something others will find useful/interesting in some way. If it turns out that most people don't that just means you were wrong about how useful/interesting you expected it to be. You can do one of two things then, either try to fix/improve your effort and re-submit it later on to hopefully better result, or else abandon the idea and try to come up with something better. Either one is fine. What you can't expect is that people will heap praise on something they consider either boring, useless, or flawed in some way. The fact that people are taking the time to call out any perceived flaws is a service to the creator, its up to them to read others opinions, evaluate them, and decide how they want to react to them (either by accepting them as valid criticisms and working to fix it, or else rejecting them for whatever reason). Ultimately if your "side project" isn't in a state yet to be evaluated by a large readership it probably shouldn't be posted here unless you're looking for feedback on how to fix it. That's the purpose of a site like this, it's to aggregate/discover interesting content, it isn't a dumping ground for every half finished project on the internet. I've got dozens of "side projects" that I'd never dream of posting here because frankly they aren't worth wasting peoples time with.

forwardslash 13y ago
Was the "Why?" link not there when you went to the site?

Samuel_Michon 13y ago

“I like it. Those are so similar to the colors I use, not too saturated, not too dim, not too bright, not too loud. (And it's hard to find a good yellow)” OP didn’t choose the colors, they’re copied from Flat UI (hence the name of the site).

__david__ 13y ago

> Click on the colors to copy them to the clipboard. If only it actually did that. It was a no-go for me with Firefox 21.

ahmetsulek 13y ago
I have Firefox 20 and it says that it's up to date :/
- __david__ 13y ago
  I'm on the beta-track: 21 is the latest beta. You have the latest official release.