- Source: [WayBack] The Secret of Great Gradient – UX Planet which has a lot more explanation
- Via: [WayBack] In case you need a gradient, use nature for inspiration :) – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
–jeroen
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The Secret of Great Gradient – UX Planet
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/09
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/18
Recommented reading and playing: [Archive.is] Practical Color Theory for People Who Code which is not just about the colour wheel, but also about:
- desaturation
- mixing
- contrast for tints and shades
Oh: don’t forge the “Party Mode” (:
–jeroen
PS:
- Joe C Hecht reminded me that you should also check out the “Why” sliders [WayBack]
- Bill Meyer emphasised that you should watch your grey-levels too [WayBack] (which luckily is covered in the linked article: it even has a button turning everything into grey-levels).
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Some links and references to IBM CUA: Common User Access which defines a lot of the UIs and UX we still use.
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04
Back in the late 80s and early 90s of last century, engineers Richard E. Berry, Cliff J. Reeves set a standard that still influences the user interfaces and user experience of today: the IBM Common User Access.
I mentioned CUA a few times before, but since an old client of mine managed to throw away their paper originals in a “we don’t need that old stuff any more as we are now all digital” frenzy, I wanted to locate some PDFs. And I promised to write more about CUA.
If anyone has printed versions of the non-PDF documents below, please donate them to aek at bitsavers.org or scanning at archive.org as they are really hard to get.
A few search queries I used:
- IBM Common User Access bitsavers (as bitsavers.org keeps a lot of PDF materials)
- IBM CUA filetype:pdf
- IBM “Common User Access” filetype:pdf
The PDFs I think are most interesting:
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Paletton and Kuler: very useful for creating colour palettes (via G+ Nick Butcher / Marie Schweiz)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/29
Combile Paletton and Kuler and off you go!
Nick Butcher: Have found this site useful for creating colour palettes. Paletton – The Color Scheme Designer
Marie Schweiz: https://kuler.adobe.com and you can get the swatches :)
#Color
Thanks Nick Butcher and Marie Schweiz.
–jeroen
via: Have found this site useful for creating colour palettes..
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André Vatter – Google+ – Wie Tabellen eigentlich aussehen sollten:
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/03
Below is how tables should look like.
Thanks Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) for pointing me to André Vatter – Google+ – Wie Tabellen eigentlich aussehen sollten: .
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 