The lights are red, orange and green icons we see on dashboards and reports performance, tell us what kind of care to our performance measures. The expert visual analysis Stephen Few has a lot to say about the risk of default colors. And I have things to say about the risks of the meaning we attach to them.
In his role as dashboard for real-time situational awareness design, Stephen Few reminds us that the first risk of the use of red, yellow and green as colors in a report for the decision is that 10% the male population and 1% of the female population is colorblind. Not distinguish between red and green. An important distinction, do not you think, because generally attributed these colors face meanings, and therefore totally different actions would be necessary?
Change traffic lights with a universal remote!
Post time: Feb-14-2017