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Wednesday September 10, 2003
03:35 PM
Stuff I've learned, round n+1
The significance of the colors in the diagram on the whiteboard might not be what you think they are when the person doing the drawing is red-green colorblind.
There's a usability lesson here, or at least a reminder of one.
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Or is it a BUG?"
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Indeed (Score:2, Interesting)
It's irritating to others that I always ask for something else if I'm given a color as an identifier. "The red one!" "You're going to have to tell me something else about it." If I had that on a tape, it would remove perhaps 3% of all the speaking I do in a year.
Usually, given choices, I pick red or gree
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