alt Hacker NewsI'd recommend for every developer to get one or more colourblind friends. I have some, and regularly send them screenshots of what I'm working on to get feedback what they can see and what they can read/can't read.
They've been absolutely invaluable for making sure their kind of people can't use my apps properly.
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Ubisoft release some tools to simulate colorblindness. It's easy to extract de color transformation from their shader directly. I'm not colorblind but I use that quite often to check roughly if the color palette I choose is fine https://github.com/ubisoft/Chroma
> I'd recommend for every developer to get one or more colourblind friends.
In the absence of any naturally occuring colour-blind friends, do you have any tips about surrptitious damaging someone's eyes to create one? :-)
Though there are simulation tools avaliable which do a reasonable job, I'll probably stick to those where I have a concern. That feels less drastic.
> They've been absolutely invaluable for making sure their kind of people can't use my apps properly.
Why would you do that?
Pro-tip: there are browser extensions able to simulate various kinds of color blindness.
That is better then a random friend, because a.) there are various kinds of colorblindness b.) you wont ask the random friend to work for your company for free.
Get more than one, someone with red-green and blue-yellow color blindness are going to have completely different experiences
For sure, but if you don't have any friends, don't discount the value of using tools such as CoBlis:
https://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simul...
.. to get an idea of the impact of your UI design on color-limited folks out there ..
I used this a few times to great effect, it was very revealing to see that my carefully selected teals and ambers were incomprehensible to some folks I really wanted to use my apps .. didn't take much iteration to come to a happy palette though, just needed a bit of care.
8% of the male population has some form of colorblindness (for women it’s around 0.5%). I have deuteranomaly colorblindness. If you search for images on the internet related to that type of colorblindness you’ll find representations of how we see color and how we see the world.
It is not a fun condition to have, and leads to lots of problems in my everyday life. This blog post accidentally accentuated that issue, since the colors are (to what I can understand) very similar looking to me as a colorblind person.
1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women go through the same sorts of experiences, and it’s worth it, if you aren’t color deficient, to try out some of the colorblindness sites and see the world as we do.
https://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/colour...