Live Webinar August 11th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Something as simple as picking a color palette is often the very thing that scares developers away from diving into design.

Design decisions are so open-ended and exposed, and everyone’s a critic. And if your colors clash, there’s no compiler throwing an error or tests failing to let you know.

No wonder amazing developers clam up when it’s time to make design decisions, deferring to “someone creative, who knows more about design.”

Natalya Shelburne (LinkedIn profile) breaks down color theory basics the developer way by:

• Abstracting away her domain knowledge as an artist into variables and functions and…
• Sharing that information—to demystify design decisions, revealing them to be:
  • Logical,
  • Predictable, and …
  • Driven by principles that anyone can learn.

Along the way, Natalya explores wavelengths, old-school fine art resources, and code code code. This isn’t a talk about how colors make us feel—this is science.

Key questions include:

• What should you do when someone says “make it pop”?
• How can you improve accessibility with intentional use of color?
• Why are most “call to action” buttons a warm color like red or orange?
• Why shouldn’t you use #000000 on your website?
• Why are red and green color schemes troublesome in design?
• What happens if you mix exactly equal parts red and green? How about blue and orange?
• Why do highlights seem to always go on the tops of buttons?
• Why do certain colors look good together?
• Why does a color look good in a color picker but bad when you use it on your site?
• Why does using more white space make things look so much better?
• Why are Sass variables and color functions such awesome tools for developers?

 Join Natalya Shelburne as she demystifies the User Experience World of  the right color choices.

Click to register for:
User Experience (UX):
Practical Color Theory For People Who Code

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