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<DIV><SPAN class=389230917-22052003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Doesn't really matter much to my eyes. Yes, the bold would be more
legible, but it would still be tiring to read. To me, white on black looks
like the letters have been dropped into tar and are sinking fast! The mass
of the black just swallows up the white text. I always had a problem with
the contention that amber screens were more restful to the eyes that green as
well. To my eyes, the amber always looked "hot", while the green was
cooler and more comfortable to stare at for hours on end. Different
strokes.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=389230917-22052003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Charlotte Foust</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Drew Wutka
[mailto:DWUTKA@marlow.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:55
AM<BR><B>To:</B> 'accessd@databaseadvisors.com'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE:
[AccessD] Good Interface Examples<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=088565316-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>What
if the text were bold? I try to stay away from thin fonts
too.....</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=088565316-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Drew</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Charlotte Foust
[mailto:cfoust@infostatsystems.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 22, 2003
11:39 AM<BR><B>To:</B> accessd@databaseadvisors.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE:
[AccessD] Good Interface Examples<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=014513616-22052003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Philosphically, you may be right. Unfortunately, my eyes aren't
philosophical about it. Black, and all dark colors for that matter,
have visual "weight" that overpowers white. So on a black page with
white print, the background overpowers the text. At least, that's the
way *my* vision works.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=014513616-22052003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Charlotte Foust</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Drew Wutka
[mailto:DWUTKA@marlow.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:20
AM<BR><B>To:</B> 'accessd@databaseadvisors.com'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE:
[AccessD] Good Interface Examples<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=958551816-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>That's what I thought (though I think you have your last sentence
reversed...books are black on white...). White on Black is letting
your eye's see what's there, not what's NOT there. (Since Black is
the absence of all color, and white is the presence of
all.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=958551816-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Drew</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Roz Clarke
[mailto:roz.clarke@donnslaw.co.uk]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 22,
2003 8:46 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
'accessd@databaseadvisors.com'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [AccessD] Good
Interface Examples<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=983004113-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Psych studies have actually shown that the human eye
differentiates light on dark more easily than dark on light and a dark
background (making up, as it does, most of the screen) should cause less
strain to the eyes, being less bright.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=983004113-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>However, I think that we find reading white-on-black easiest
because we've all been habituated to it from reading
books.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=983004113-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Roz</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> John
Bartow [mailto:john@winhaven.net] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 22 May 2003
14:09<BR><B>To:</B> accessd@databaseadvisors.com<BR><B>Subject:</B>
RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671020213-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Drew,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671020213-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>I don't care for white on black. Your site isn't too bad
because there isn't much to read (and I like the wolf logo) but more
than a paragraph or so and the eye strain gets pretty
heavy.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671020213-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>To be positive though, it is better than red on black, which I
have seen on at least one web site! Yeeoucch! Talk about eye
strain!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=671020213-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>JB</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
accessd-bounces@databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces@databaseadvisors.com]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Drew Wutka<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 21, 2003 8:38
PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'accessd@databaseadvisors.com'<BR><B>Subject:</B>
RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=893133601-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Oh, okay. Personally I like to stick to black and
white, as often as possible. Literally. I use black
backgrounds with white text. I just think it sticks out better
then black on white. However, something to keep in mind, color
is nice, however, a large portion of the population is color blind
to a certain extent. Always be sure that places where color is
used, and differentiating things of different color is important, to
use colors that 'clash' spectrally, so even if someone is seeing it
as shades of grey (a severe color blind person), they would still
see the difference.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=893133601-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>That's my only tip......</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=893133601-22052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Drew</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Roz
Clarke [mailto:roz.clarke@donnslaw.co.uk]<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Wednesday, May 21, 2003 4:07 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
'accessd@databaseadvisors.com'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [AccessD]
Good Interface Examples<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=991320309-21052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>We're about to start designing the interface for a data
mining application. My team hasn't had any formal training on
interface design, and I didn't want them to get all their ideas
from me - better if they have a range of examples! So we're having
a couple of workshops where we discuss design principles before we
start doing the spec. This application will take a few weeks to
write and, if we get it right, be in use for 2-3 years so it's
worth putting some thought into.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=991320309-21052003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Roz</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original
Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Drew Wutka
[mailto:DWUTKA@marlow.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 20 May 2003
20:10<BR><B>To:</B>
'accessd@databaseadvisors.com'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [AccessD]
Good Interface Examples<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=466410919-20052003><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>What kind of 'interface' are you looking
for?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=466410919-20052003><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Drew</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
Roz Clarke [mailto:roz.clarke@donnslaw.co.uk]<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Tuesday, May 20, 2003 4:53 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
'accessd@databaseadvisors.com'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [AccessD]
Good Interface Examples<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anybody remember a looong time
ago we had a discussion about interface design, and someone
was hosting a gallery of different interfaces that had been
done with Access?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anybody know if it's still
there, where it was, and whether there are any other good
resources out there?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>TIA</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Roz</FONT>
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