[Gendergap] The interface color scheme

Daniel and Elizabeth Case dancase at frontiernet.net
Fri Feb 18 23:03:56 UTC 2011


Andreas wrote:

This an interesting line of thought. If you look at our interface, does it
look like it was designed by a man or a woman? Basically, we have the
traditional IBM colour scheme: white, grey and blue, and lots of straight
lines and boxes. There is little red, green, pink or yellow, nothing curvy.
Everything is very functional. There is no place to socialise (WP:Café?).

I respond:

I understand and respect Andreas's larger point, but we have to be careful 
of falling into traps further down this line of thinking that will lead us 
to something like this:

http://videosift.com/video/SNL-ad-Chess-for-Girls

(I remember how this sketch went but, for some reason, I have never gotten 
it to load from this site, which seems to be the only place online I can 
find it).

Daniel Case





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