[SJAAboard] Traffic lights on web page

Rob Hawley robhawley at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 28 21:47:15 MST 2007


>> I touched up Mark's icons to use primary colors.  The other lights in the
>> red were not as dimmed as in the yellow and green.
>
>Have you considered leaving the rest black?

Since Craig is not here I will chime in on what I expect he will say.

If you are proposing to only have a single color then that will not work
based on human factors.  The traffic light analogy works only because even
color blind people are used to the positional location of the "lights".

If you only have a single "light" then you can not be assured everyone can
distinguish the color. Thus you need placeholders for the lights that are
off.  Mark's colors are a darker version of the color when lit.

Rob Hawley 





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