Roz Clarke
roz.clarke at donnslaw.co.uk
Thu May 22 09:24:36 CDT 2003
>I am poor and use the older technology. ;-) As are most of us, JC... nice to have my info updated :) -----Original Message----- From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: 22 May 2003 15:02 To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples No, it is more than that. I know about the studies you refer to but those refer specifically to printed material. In the case of a monitor, it turns out the reverse is true. The resolution of the screen, the pixel turn on time (electronics behind the image) and the size of the object being assimilated by the eye and the brain all play a factor. Printed material usually has a very sharply defined "edge" between the dark and the light, whereas with TV tube monitors, the waveform that defines the dot on the screen causes the average intensity to be lower than might otherwise expected. In essence the "dot" is only fully turned on in the very center, whereas the edges of the pixel are dimmer. When taken together, it just doesn't work the same with monitors as it does with print. This (your study) may in fact be true again with the new LCD displays since each pixel really is either on or off, and the entire pixel is the same intensity across the whole. In the meantime, I am poor and use the older technology. ;-) John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Roz Clarke Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 9:46 AM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples 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. However, I think that we find reading white-on-black easiest because we've all been habituated to it from reading books. Roz -----Original Message----- From: John Bartow [mailto:john at winhaven.net] Sent: 22 May 2003 14:09 To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples Drew, 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. 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! JB -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Drew Wutka Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 8:38 PM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples 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. That's my only tip...... Drew -----Original Message----- From: Roz Clarke [mailto:roz.clarke at donnslaw.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 4:07 AM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples 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. Roz -----Original Message----- From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com] Sent: 20 May 2003 20:10 To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples What kind of 'interface' are you looking for? Drew -----Original Message----- From: Roz Clarke [mailto:roz.clarke at donnslaw.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 4:53 AM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples Hi all 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? Does anybody know if it's still there, where it was, and whether there are any other good resources out there? TIA Roz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://databaseadvisors.com/pipermail/accessd/attachments/20030522/5e09f929/attachment-0001.html>