It’s hard to imagine what those with colour blindness are seeing. As we all know colour blindness affects a significant amount of the population. It is mostly caused by genetic condition but there are certain circumstances such as brain or nerve damage which also potentialy cause colour blindness.
Designer uses colour to convey various messages, it is an efficient communication tool.
From colour-coded background, traffic lights, status indicator, icons. It is very important to pick the right colour to ensure these messages can be communicated clearly.
Colour Blind Comparison of Claromentis Web Page
Claromentis Intranet Solutions page as seen using Colour Blind Web Filter
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General Intranet Posts, Visual Interface
Design
Designers are independent. In work, mindset and lifestyle. Yet in this Web age aren’t we losing independence? For most designers the first tool to start designing from is the Adobe suite, a quite impressive set of tools that help us to make our work easier. But don’t we rely too much on Adobe? For years people have been watching how Microsoft dominated the market. We lament that its applications are bloated and criticize its efforts to wipe away competitors. But instead of taking a stand, we continue to buy its products and we continue to moan.
We always have options. And in the design process we have them too. At the moment we don’t really know to what level open source applications can compete with Adobe. But with support, with independent minds and strong community involvement, the open source movement can grow. Competition is a part of the progress and so is the choice. We need to maintain a competitive arena in design. And we need good open source alternatives for the tools we use. Independent start-ups are the lifeblood of the industry and the breath of fresh air we all need.
But apart from Microsoft, Adobe and the latest computer system to run these applications, you may have problems setting up a professional open source environment which would perfectly meet your needs. We need better open source applications for designers. And we need to work together to produce them and then use them. Just think for a second: how many young designers can afford Adobe anyway? Do we not need a platform that supports us while we support it? Doesn’t open source represent the true spirit of design?
Nick Pretorius,
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General Intranet Posts, Visual Interface
Adobe, Design, Microsoft, open source
2005
- Designed for 800×600
- No CMS
- Semi static websites
2006
- First CMS Implementation
- Designed for 800×600
- Dynamic PHP pages
- Horizontal Drop-down menu navigation
2007-2008
- Designed for 1024×768
- First to introduced “Product Motives” diagram
- Table-less design
- CSS Menu
- Mid 2008 - SEO Implementation
2008-2009 (Concept)
- Designed for 1024×768
- Non drop-down menu navigation
- Rich footer
General Intranet Posts, Visual Interface
Claromentis, Design, Logo
Everyday, we visit tens of websites everyday and every website has its own interface and logo design. But how many of these logos we remember actually?
Web Logos
There are 2 different versions in guess the logo website which aims to test your memory skills. You might think that you will always remember the logo of Google, but are you sure?
Visit the website and get ready to be surprised.
General Intranet Posts
Design, Logo