Design Bits

Share this post

Design Bits #3

designbits.substack.com

Design Bits #3

Why can't Santa be green?!?

Uyai E
Dec 17, 2020
Share
Share this post

Design Bits #3

designbits.substack.com

How’s everyone holding up in the period running up to Christmas? I hope you are all finding some peace and joy amidst the chaos of the end of year period.

Let’s get to it:

1) It’s the most wonderful time of the year! There are Christmas parties, office parties, family get togethers and even more events. Some of these events are a production and planned to the last detail. Others are boring or even worse - full of stress. How do you design your events so that you optimize the experience for your expected audience? You already know it - you can use design principles to do this. See how one Christmas play used UX design principles to improve the end-to-end patron experience.

2) Marissa Mayer famously tested 41 different shades of blue to get the perfect shade of blue that Google uses on its homepage. I found this article from the design blog at Google (which is worth a subscription for anyone interested in how they use design principles). It shows how fantastic a product can be when design and engineering work together. Here, the Google Maps team were able to simply the product’s color scheme and make the product easier for a billion users worldwide.

3) Last but not least - have you ever asked yourself why Santa is red and white? What role did design play in his suit coloring? And why can’t he be green instead?

Stay well,

Uyai

Share
Share this post

Design Bits #3

designbits.substack.com
Comments
Top
New

No posts

Ready for more?

© 2023 Uyai
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing