I noticed a tiny change on the iPhone availability website. At first I was puzzled and then I remembered. Yesterday Apple had a red circle and a green circle to show availability. Today they updated the site with a tiny change:
The red circle was replaced with a red square. Users with color blindness have trouble seeing the differences between these colors so the shape helps. This reminded me of a couple places in my own designs where I wasn’t considering colorblindness. There are many different types of color blindness. One quick check is to print your designs in black and white and make sure they still make sense.
Even better would’ve been a green “Yes” and red “No” so the user wouldn’t have to refer to the legend (the color coding is somewhat consistent with stereotypes but circles and squares are an arbitrary code). They could also then eliminate the clutter of the legend.
A great improvement. But I also think, they could even do better – like Michael said. For a colorblind (and I am) it is still a bit to confused.
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