This presentation discusses color blindness and design considerations for color blind users. It defines color blindness as a decreased ability to see or distinguish between colors. It then discusses tools that help designers understand color blindness, such as alternative color palettes and plugins to simulate color blindness. The presentation outlines ways to improve design for color blind users, like using clear color names, effective color filters, avoiding color-specific instructions and low contrast. It suggests design solutions like using symbols with colors, limiting colors, adding patterns/textures for contrast, and avoiding bad color combinations. The overarching theme is how design can be implemented to help color blind consumers.

1. Design For Color Blindness
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2. What is Color Blindness?
• Decreased ability to see colors,or tell colors
apart from one another.
• Deuteranopia and Protanopia are much more
common in men than in women.
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3. Digital Design
Tools That Help Designers Understand
• Alternative color palettes that allow designers to
preview web pages as people with color blindness.
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4. Digital Design
Tools That Help Designers Understand
• Insight, a photoshop plug-in allows designers to check
the colorblind compatibility of their work, it can also
simulate total blue color blindness.
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5. Digital Design
Ways To ImproveWeb Design
• Use Clear Color Names
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6. Digital Design
Ways To Improve DesignWorks
• Use Effective Color Search Filters
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7. Digital Design
Ways To Improve DesignWorks
• Avoid Color Specific Instructions
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8. Digital Design
Ways To Improve DesignWorks
• Avoid Low Contrast Design
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9. Digital Design
Ways To Improve DesignWorks
• TestYour Work
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10. Digital Design
Design Solutions For Color Blindness
• Use both colors and symbols.
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11. Digital Design
Design Solutions For Color Blindness
• Keep it minimal to 2 or 3 colors.
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12. Digital Design
Design Solutions For Color Blindness
• Use patterns and textures to show contrast.
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13. Digital Design
Design Solutions For Color Blindness
• Be careful with contrasting colors and hues.
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14. Digital Design
Design Solutions For Color Blindness
• Avoid using bad color combinations.
• Examples:
• Green & Red & Brown
• Blue & Purple & Green
• Green & Grey & Black
• Light Green &Yellow
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15. Digital Design
OverarchingTheme & Question
• How Design Can and Should be Implemented to
Help Color Blindness Consumers?
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16. Digital Design
ThankYou!
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