. . . also, a common issue with persons who have vision problems, as such, Win and OS X (I recall that Firefox has an add-in), to provide the reverse text option. Third-party software for these visually-impaired users sometimes does this globally, as well as offering variations on the the above (grey scale, background stripe guides, etc.). When doing ID and IxD work with medical patients where this was an important design variable (e.g., neuralgic, ophthalmologic, endocrine), I almost always honored that perception is reality. For those UX, it seemed essential per the "mission-critical" type of hardware and software we were designing . . . ::::
Andrew Schechterman PhD LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewschechterman E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 1-303-886-2440 ::::: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Jesse <[email protected]> wrote: > @adrian: true. in our case it was not a performance issue. we were > concerned with people not being able to read or not liking to read, > and not so concerned with reading quickly. That is why I pointed out > that this was not done in the original posters' specific context. > Performance tests are a whole separate study (one that I am have to > believe has been done in the academic arena). > > @vance: people definitely perceive dark on white as more > professional, but we were pleased with the completion of that > thought: 'and this seems more entertaining' > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39974 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
