Discussion Archive: September 2009

JOB: User Interface Designer opportunity at Foodbuzz San Francisco Full-time

I recently joined a great, San Francisco-based, well-funded company
called Foodbuzz and we are looking for a creative and hard-working
User Interface Designer.

Who are we?

We are the third largest online property, growing at an insane rate
of 200%!
We work with more than 2,500 food bloggers!
We reach 7 Million Unique Users!
And...we love food!

Foodbuzz: the first-ever community site devoted exclusively to food
and dining content—an unparalleled resource for searching, surfing
and sharing with fellow foodies everywhere.

Color palette / scheme for use at night ?

Hello,

I'm looking for some best practices or guidelines for color schemes
used in our port management system at night or in low light
conditions.

At our company we have shift workers on vessels in the harbour, who
also work at night. Having to look at bright coloured, high contrast
screens all night is more tiring than we expected.

Is it common to introduce a 'night color scheme' which is more easy
to read or look at ?

And how would a standard 'night' theme look like ?

With regards,

Rutger van Dijk

nice read: On Apple's connection with the consumer

It may help resolve some long fights over Apple's design philosophy ?

" "We did iTunes because we all love music. We made what we thought was the
best jukebox in iTunes. Then we all wanted to carry our whole music
libraries around with us. The team worked really hard. And the reason that
they worked so hard is because we all wanted one. You know? I mean, the
first few hundred customers were us.

"It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not
about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out
what we want.

Icons for Internal Links

I was just curious if anyone uses an icon for internal links (similar
to the box/arrow icon for external links). Specifically, I am
thinking of header links, when the header on a page section links to
that section. On so many sites, i just see a color assignment for the
header link which doesn't always seem obvious and depending on the
header style an underline could look out of place or clunky.

i am new here so maybe there is a convention already in place but i
couldn't really find anything searching the archives discussing
icons.