Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Geoff Deering wrote:
*Another* thing I see that is happening in design a lot lately is
that input fields are in greyed background by design, not function.
What this is telling the user is that that field is *read only*.
That is the standard way operating systems manage read only data, and
the same way it is done on web based systems. It's absolutely
sending the wrong message to users, when the input field is open to
accept data input.
The problem with this is obviously that it's difficult to say *how*
grey an input has to appear before a user thinks it's read only. Do we
sit down and define a required luminescence/contrast to the
background? In my mind, hard to quantify other than to say: "be
careful, don't make it too dark/grey, otherwise some users may think
they can't use them".
I think it is quite simple, don't use any scale of grey at all. Grey is
reserved for meaning *read only*.
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Geoff
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