Re: [IxDA Discuss] Reverse colour text and attention blindness
Thanks for the Apple example Den. I hadn't seen this yet. This type of slider mechanism could work well as an alternative to tabs - especially if there tabs represent some sort of continuous journey. I'd probably keep it persistent though. It disappears once you click through on the Apple site. Thanks again for that . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37296 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Reverse colour text and attention blindness
The problem is that some users seem to completely ignore the other tabs in an in-page tab panel - even when the tab headings are clearly relevent to their task. Obviously any tab panel should have some element of foreground and background in the design but if the background is never even used then it becomes a problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37296 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Reverse colour text and attention blindness
I'm working on a design at the moment that has a tab panel in the page. In the first iteration the visual designers used reverse colour on the main type to distinguish between the selected tab and the unselected tab. This type of colour reversal is a classic graphic design trick to decrease the visual noise on a page. My problem however is I think this kind of that it can introduce interaction problems. It is well known that we selectively attend on the basis of colour - in other words if you are tuned into black text you will tend to not see any white text. This is exactly the reason why the classic graphic design trick works. For the user this results in a kind of tab blindness - an effect I've seen in a number of testing sessions. Has anyone come across this observation or any design guidelines that advise against colour reversals in navigation devices? -- Dr. John McCarthy Experience Architect Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
