Neat find. Pinterest samples the color of the image to set a matching background color before it is fully rendered. Helps the eye draw connections faster and gives the overall site a more responsive feeling.
The new Mobile Design trend – Colour
Mobile design is growing in quality for sure. I must say that the one big thing that is taking over the mobile design scene is colour. Colour hasn’t been popular in mobile design as people were playing it safe and therefore underutilizing colour. However, that is changing – thankfully – as colour is becoming a big component of mobile design and deserves to be called a trend all on its own.
An article by Paula Borowska for designmodo
Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts
Having some struggle to color charts and graphs used in UI your designing? Using color palettes like Kuler is one thing, but we, UX practitioner, should be better than that. This article gives you a very quick and solid instruction based on human factors.
via PerceptualEdge
Jubilee Pantone Queen Palette
In celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 colourful years on the British throne, Leo Burnett London teamed up with Pantone to create a colour guide book of the Queen’s best colour matching outfits for the Royal Jubilee. The guide is numbered featuring PANTONE Colour references citing the date and location that determined her outfit colour choice.
Source: designfetish.org
Oh look, another person jumped on the Pantone trend. (via novastyle)
DIY Inspiration: Travel Posters with Simple Personal Icons. From Graphic Designer Thomas Lowry from his Flickr Photostream here. *I’ve blown up a few and inserted them into the bottom left corner to show you ones like the raincoat on the London Poster which maybe you can see in the high res option.
Color is a creative element, not a trimming.
Piet Zwart
Pantone Tootbrushes
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Pablo Picasso
Colour: User Experience And Psychology
Colour plays a crucial role in User Experience. It transmits a psychological message to your users and choosing the right colours for your brand, logo or product can be vital as it helps your brand or product get easily recognised and identified with your industry…
Source: usabilitygeek.com
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Pablo Picasso
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