Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Thu May 22 11:54:32 CDT 2003
What if the text were bold? I try to stay away from thin fonts too..... Drew -----Original Message----- From: Charlotte Foust [mailto:cfoust at infostatsystems.com] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:39 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples 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. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:20 AM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples 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.) Drew -----Original Message----- From: Roz Clarke [mailto:roz.clarke at donnslaw.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:46 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/f1b2fd0d/attachment-0001.html>