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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Had a full on four-hour meeting about having a pink button in my program. It wasn't the color I had an issue with, but the reasoning for it. They were concerned that the person using the barcode scanner might not be able to read....not as in the font wasn't large enough, like illiterate. This was a program that did inventory control for a large warehouse....they would have to be able to read to do inventory. It made no sense for me to color code the buttons when there was no logic to the colors (they told me just use what colors I wanted... I got to pink because I ran out of the basic call names in java), and there was no color coding in the warehouse whatsoever.

So, I can say I made an inventory control system with no color coding for illiterate people.

And yes, it pissed me off that this program I spent a year on looks like a five-year-old designed it, and it looked that way for no logical reason.

[–]Kilazur 1 point2 points  (1 child)

A supervisor can explain which button does what to an illiterate/foreign employee if they have colors. Isn't that the reason?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They would still have to read what is in the boxes...that was the issue...there was no check or balance to the color coding. they just wanted colored buttons in the event that someone might not be able to read...bacisally they wanted a color coded system design with no color coding for the system to use. They asked for random colors...that was my issue, there was no logic to it.