In the book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" the authors summarize a lot of their research into cognitive biases. You might want to have a look at it. For example I remember that they talk about how legibility of fonts can influence your tendency to believe what is written.
One take away in particular, IIRC, is that you might not actually want to go for "as calming as possible" there might be some inverse correlation between calming and rationality of the user. So if you require some critical thinking and decision making from the user some level of stress might actually be a good thing. BR, John On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm working on a user interface which will most of the time be interacted > with by people who are in a state of distress. It's vital that the UI be as > calming as possible. I've gotten to the part where I have to choose colors > to put on the screen, and I've done a web search, but most of the links are > about interior decorating and don't exactly smack of science. > > a) not sure that what works for decorating will necessarily work for UI > > b) I'd like to read any good research out there > > My gut says blue, green, or a combination would be best, but what > saturation to use? Etc. > > TIA, > > Casey Ransberger > > _______________________________________________ > Fonc mailing list > Fonc@mailman.vpri.org > http://mailman.vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc_mailman.vpri.org > >
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