{"id":6090,"date":"2013-02-24T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graphomate.com\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2020-07-29T09:17:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T07:17:52","slug":"visualization-when-colours-make-you-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphomate.com\/en\/2013\/02\/visualization-when-colours-make-you-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualization: When colours make you blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u201eEverything is so beautifully colorful here.\u201c\u00a0 German punk icon <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4HLAfX1Xtwk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nina Hagen<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> sang this song at the end of the 70s and referred to color TV. Some producers of dashboards still try to comply with this maxim of using as many colors as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graphomate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/022113_1227_2.jpg\" \/>Source: perpetuum software<\/p>\n<p>The example from above shows a kind of dashboard which is still a favorite with many dashboard designers \u2013 extremely colorful, with gaudy colors that seem to leap out at the beholder and many different style elements like a map, gauges and so on.<br \/>\nBut what happens to all the colors if the addressees are not able to perceive all the colors? What if the suffer from a kind of red-green color blindness? About 9% of all male and around 0.8% of all female are affected by this genetic deficiency.<br \/>\nAn easy test shows how color blindness affects the perception of the dashboard from above.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graphomate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/022113_1227_3.jpg\" \/>Quelle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etre.com\/tools\/colourblindsimulator\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.etre.com\/tools\/colourblindsimulator\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see it at a glance &#8211; all the colors are meaningless: the map shows only 2 yellow areas, one blue and one yellowish-brown area instead of 4 colorful areas.<br \/>\nThe gauges at the bottom of the dashboard have lost their meaning, too: you cannot make out which part is positive (green) and which part is negative (red) because everything looks yellow.<\/p>\n<p>The same test done with a graphomate dashboard leads to the following result:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graphomate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/022113_1227_4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graphomate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/022113_1227_5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etre.com\/tools\/colourblindsimulator\/\">&#8220;colourblindsimulator&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/span> unfortunately delivers only graphics with a low quality but nevertheless you can see that the graphomate charts without noise, effects and so one can be \u201edeciphered\u201c even if you have a red-green color deficiency. The content is not blurred by meaningless colors which cannot be perceived by the beholder. You might give the addressee a hand by stating that the light bubbles are positive and the dark bubbles are negative- but all other information can be seen at a glance and do not need further explanation.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important point for graphomate : it shows how important it is to strictly adhere to the SUCESS-rules: Superfluous components like gaudy colors are left out\u00a0 and therefore do not distract from the fundamental\u00a0 purpose of a dashboard: information. Reducing the noise enables high information density in a small space.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it is time for dashboard designers to follow the trend shown at the OSCARS of 2012. The winner of the category \u201eBest film\u201c was \u00a0\u201e<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1655442\/\">The Artist<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201c \u2013 a black and white film.<\/p>\n<p>The best, Manu<\/p>\n<p>P.S.: Thanks to Markus Reinke<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/strong> for providing the link to the colourblindsimulator.<\/p>\n<p>_<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.graphomate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ccbync.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ccbync\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graphomate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ccbync.png\" width=\"107\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis file is licenced under the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Creative Commons-Licence<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201eEverything is so beautifully colorful here.\u201c\u00a0 German punk icon Nina Hagen sang this song at the end of the 70s and referred to color TV. 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