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One of the most important color tricks I’ve ever learned was to avoid using the color black in my work Really interesting article describing why you shouldn't use the colour black in your applications.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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You can use the same arguments against white.
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The theory is to use black on mobile apps to prolong battery life. It takes more energy to display white #FFFFFF, all bits on, then it does to display black, #000000 no bits on.
So when it comes to mobile apps, always use black.
And when you need caffeine, drink your ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) black.
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That would be true for all phones with AMOLED displays.
But for devices with some kind of backlit TFT it wouldn't matter much.
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To prove the point, the author set the text color to some gray, but that only made it less readable...
While I agree that black isn't a good color for surface coloring, when you have a pure white background gray text will create a blur effect only...
So like with everything in design - no real rules, but guidelines with exceptions...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That is an interesting read and probably very much so to HCI professionals.
I will say 1 thing about black.
Using black or even a dark gray would substantially reduce the amount of glare from the screen. Law enforcement asks for their software in very dark colors and I know this because I have built software for them. They have to deal with working at night, with traffic lights coming at them and at the same time staring at a laptop with a white background nearly blinds them.
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How Schrodingerian is it that a web site that evangelizes for "never use black" uses body-type that is such a "whiter shade of pale" it is virtually unreadable (for my older eyes rapidly going downhill, anywho) ?
Oh yes, in theory, nothing we see is absolutely "black," but for a graduate of RISD to forget about contrast and readability seems remarkably blind to me.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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BillWoodruff wrote: to forget about contrast and readability seems remarkably blind to me
Agree 100% 
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That's what happening when you turn something to religion in design - a good designer looks on every work with fresh eyes, the moment stops doing so he ain't designer no more...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Don't make your color-preferences more important than usability.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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Dominic Burford wrote: why you shouldn't use the colour black
Except for when you should. Like for readability, which his website isn't.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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This course is an introduction to the theory that tries to explain how minds are made from collections of simpler processes. The late, great Marvin Minsky teaches you about AI
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The Eclipse Foundation’s Web-based IDE, Che, entered beta today. All the performance you're used to with Eclipse, now in your browser
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Rule #1: Don't name your product something that nobody knows how to pronounce.
Chee?
Chay?
Shay?
Shee?
Key?
Kay?
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[ˈtʃe]...like in Che Guevara...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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A terrorist glorified by sunshines...
Yup sounds about right for a new version of Eclipse.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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**Cough** .gif **Cough** 
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If your app handles user data, then secure authentication should be one of your primary concerns. Identity management is a hard thing to do well, involving encryption, reset mechanisms, and other security measures. It's better than an unencrypted password column
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's better than an unencrypted password column
But not by much:
Quote: In December, a sample app implementation for Microsoft Passport was published up on GitHub to demonstrate how this entire process works, including both the client and the server pieces. However, keep in mind that this Microsoft Passport sample is greatly simplified. It is not secure enough for a production environment
Oh Elephant! That's not going to end well.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We've previously wondered when Apple would join virtually everybody else in tech and start thinking seriously about creating a VR product. Mental note: invest in anti-nausea pills
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Microsoft previews Azure Stack, a private cloud configuration which is actually public Azure in a box. Then you can tell people to get off of it
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If I recall correctly you need something like a 1400 CPU server farm...so it will be a pretty big (and hot) box.
Basically this is for large companies naive enough to think that hosting their own servers will keep the spooks out of the data.
It won't.
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Now Azure private cloud make sense. It was so illusion
Wonde Tadesse
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More clouds in the Azure sky.
Storm is coming.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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