Hands-On UX Design for Developers

Using colors

Every day, we are surrounded by different kinds of colors. So, I don't think that it is necessary to explain how important color is to visual design, but I will give you a brief overview of it.

Using colors in our visual design, we present the mood and the atmosphere, generate emotions, and guide our users to their next actions based on the colors that we use inside our product.

Consider traffic lights. We have only three colors, but we are used to them, because each of them communicates something to us.

Red tells us to stop and the green one tells us to go, and sometimes we do not even think about them anymore because we got habituated to them, so we just take the appropriate action.

So, when we are designing a product, we always ...