10. Use Color (Carefully)
10. Use Color (Carefully)
- Color
- Can effectively improve the usability of screens
- Can be used to call attention to a graphical element or to group like items together
- Can enhance readability
- Can create problems
- Large areas of bright colors can be disturbing
- Adjoining opposite (or "circus") colors can vibrate and be very distracting.
- Significant portion of the population of users have color vision problems
- Use color only as a secondary cue and not as the exclusive way to group items or communicate information.