Woops…I must have hit the 'reply' as opposed to 'reply all'. -Priscilla
On Apr 23, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
Hi Greg,
Welcome to the design list and thank you for addressing your concern.
I agree the current design is very grey and we are still iterating
on the design. Yes, we are concerned about items looking disabled
and to make sure it's not hard for our users to read.
More in line:
On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Greg Noel wrote:
I don't object to grey as a branding color, but looking at the
mockups, grey appears to be used as a font color as well. In this
case, the font for the calendar is clearly grey, and seemingly
some other places as well. This is a _BAD_ choice.
I have poor eyesight, and I need all the help I can get to resolve
text when I'm reading. There's a reason that books are printed
with solid black type on pure white background: it's the easiest
to read. Similarly, text on a screen that's meant to be read
should also be BLACK (not grey) on WHITE. (Text that's inactive
is not to be read and can be greyed out, but even then it should
be dark grey.)
Part of what you're seeing is our working process and the common
struggling with too much information on the web UI. Using grey vs.
black is part of a process in figuring out which items are
important vs. which items need to be set back. Otherwise if all the
information on the page is important, then the one would never know
where to begin and where to end.
Currently the text which are not editable are grey. Hint text in
text boxes such as the 'goto date' are in grey as well because once
the user clicks into the box, it will be replaced by what the user
types in (the text the user types in is in black btw.). Other items
which are editable will be black in the detail view.
We're iterating on the dashboard text though we may see if ppl will
try to click on tot he dashboard since it's not editable (in line)
for the upcoming release. Though as I said, we'll still working out
the details, including font color.
I realize it's probably too late to influence this choice, but
I'll hope that you keep it in mind for the next iteration.
Nope not too late…we'll definitely keep your concern in mind. As
mentioned, we are still iterating so we'll keep your concerns in
mind as we move forward. =)
Thanks, -Priscilla
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list
http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
