Making next logical steps more prominent and using color to do so in a consistent way is a common practice. Google uses red (main actions), green (sharing) and blue (navigation) as detailed in this talk http://vimeo.com/29965463. Bootstrap components (widely used all around the internet) use the same concept but with a different set of colors and meanings http://getbootstrap.com/components/. And we can find many more examples in existing UIs and design guidelines...
What I am wondering is which is the better way we can communicate this kind of design decisions to our community? Is it enough to communicate the rationale or more evidence will be needed? Is researching on specific UI components (as opposed to the broader interaction problems those solve when put together in a UI) the best area to invest our research and communication efforts?
Pau
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:12 AM, Jared Zimmerman jzimmerman@wikimedia.org wrote:
Since when did Facebook solidify their ownership of the color blue?
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On Oct 9, 2014, at 4:54 PM, May Tee-Galloway mgalloway@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hence, "leak" ;P
But as I was saying to Jon, it was easy to make the Facebook comment because all they saw was a blue button, no other ones.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Prateek Saxena psaxena@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Jon Robson jrobson@wikimedia.org wrote:
What happened:
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/162121/ got deployed.
- This patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/163775/ did not.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/162121/ was for Special:Contributions. How did its changes leak into Special:Search?
—prtksxna
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