Category: colors

Stop Designing For Only 85% Of Users: Nailing Accessibility In Design

   As designers, we like to think we are solution-based. But whereas we wouldn’t hesitate to call out a museum made inaccessible by a lack of wheelchair ramps, many of us still remain somewhat oblivious to flaws in our user interf...

Taming Advanced Color Palettes In Photoshop, Sketch And Affinity Designer

   Creating large, harmonious and uniform color palettes can be a challenge. Good intentions and confident plans can be abandoned when things get a little unwieldy.But you can equip yourself with some tools to manage the complexit...

The Underestimated Power Of Color In Mobile App Design

   Color is arguably the second most important aspect of your app, after functionality. The human to computer interaction is heavily based on interacting with graphical UI elements, and color plays a critical role in this interactio...

Improving UX For Color-Blind Users

  According to Colour Blind Awareness 4.5% of the population are color-blind. If your audience is mostly male this increases to 8%. Designing for color-blind people can be easily forgotten because most designers aren’t color-blind. In this article I provide 13 tips to improve the experience for c...

Fresh and Creative Web Design Techniques

As a designer, this is one of the most exciting parts of a new year. Here we are, trying to figure out what’s going to be big for design trends in 2013. It absolutely makes sense. Web designers have to really be up on all the new trends to be relevant and abreast of what’s next after that trend. It’s...