Design Principles: Color-Blind Accessibility In Design
Lesson 16 from: FAST CLASS: Think Like a Visual DesignerSarah Doody
Design Principles: Color-Blind Accessibility In Design
Lesson 16 from: FAST CLASS: Think Like a Visual DesignerSarah Doody
Lesson Info
16. Design Principles: Color-Blind Accessibility In Design
Lessons
Why Design Matters
05:50 2Design Vs. Aesthetic
06:27 3Impact Of Design
07:01 4The Design Process: Understand Your Audience
09:17 5The Design Process: Understand Your Content
05:21 6Design Principle: Alignment, Grids, And Spacing
05:47 7Design Principles: Contrast
02:55 8Design Principles: Repetition
03:20Design Principle: Hierarchy & Proximity
05:37 10Principle Scale And Balance
02:48 11Design Principles: Typography
04:29 12Design Principles: White Space
01:11 13Design Principles: Color
06:09 14Design Principles: Graphics, Icons, And Photos
02:51 15Design Principles: Layouts And Focal Points
01:53 16Design Principles: Color-Blind Accessibility In Design
01:41Lesson Info
Design Principles: Color-Blind Accessibility In Design
I would do the entire design industry a disservice, and really humanity, If we didn't talk a little bit about accessibility in design. We don't have time to get into all of it, but I think a really important one to cover is the topic of color blindness and thinking about how do we design for people to make sure that if they do have some type of issue, they're not losing the meaning of the message. So if you don't have any issues with color, you see green, yellow, red, right? It looks pretty good. If you have issues with color, the problem is you lose kind of yellow and the green and the red pigment. So when you see green, yellow, and red things, they kind of all don't stand out as much as they do for the top row, where that would be what it looks like for someone with regular vision. But here's a good example. So remember our chart, survey results. If we were color blind, this is what we would see over on the right. And it could be difficult, depending on what your screen looks like, i...
t could be difficult to see the difference between these two sections. So one way to fix that is in addition to color, use some type of pattern. So you can see it might be kind of faint, but we use this pattern to indicate so that the colorblind person, and it would be in the legend somehow as well, but the colorblind person would then not lose the meaning of the actual information.
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