Explain to a non-designer - web success
Explain to a non-designer - web success
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- uan1
red is hot...
...blue is cold.always use red if you wanna sell something.
- Facebook is blue because Zuck is color blind or somethinggrafician
- ....my theory is crap.uan
- Facebook is blue because a bunch of engineers A/B tested the shit out of it and the blue they ended up using was entirely inoffensive. Shit, but inoffensive.Nairn
- This is very true for the art-world, not sure how relevant it is online. I suspect features and marketing matter a lot more.Nairn
- Holy crap. I just imagined youtube's logo as blue and it looked - AWFULcherub
- I was not joking about Zuck blue https://edition.cnn.…grafician
- Also if you're not using websafe colors, color on the web is a very tricky situation, each user sees something different based on his systemgrafician
- I'm pretty sure that tidbit in the New Yorker is some post hoc bullshit rationalisation, but it's not like i care much.Nairn
- Blue is friendly. Red is aggressivemilfhunter
- Blue also = trustworthy. Banks use blue. We’re trusting Zuck with our datascarabin