[AccessD] Good Interface Examples

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.
 
Charlotte Foust

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	From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com] 
	Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:55 AM
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	What if the text were bold?  I try to stay away from thin fonts
too.....
	 
	Drew

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		From: Charlotte Foust
[mailto:cfoust at infostatsystems.com]
		Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:39 AM
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		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

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			From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com] 
			Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:20 AM
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			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

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				From: Roz Clarke
[mailto:roz.clarke at donnslaw.co.uk]
				Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:46 AM
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				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

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				From: John Bartow
[mailto:john at winhaven.net] 
				Sent: 22 May 2003 14:09
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				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

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				Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 8:38 PM
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				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

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				From: Roz Clarke
[mailto:roz.clarke at donnslaw.co.uk]
				Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 4:07 AM
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				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
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				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
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				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 

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