Color Usage in UI Design

1.Color Terminology-

This forms our foundation of color knowledge. We can employ to develop unique color palettes like hue, tint, and shade as tools.

2.Hierarchy-

When an element’s aspect disparity with its circumstances, it indicates that element has higher importance. We can use color weight to establish a hierarchy within an interface.

3.Expressive-

Show brand colors at unforgettable moments that fortify your brand’s unique style.

When adding colors to reinforce our brand to the interface, be thoughtful about when and where it’s added.

4.Inclusivity-

This Design is defined as the accessibility and usability of a product by a broad range of population irrespective of any differences without the need to specially adapt them.

Usually we are trying to design what looks good and abandon to consider the different users that will be interacting with our product.

We can escape with this when we are trying to score drop likes, but it’s not a good practice when developing a product for real humans.

5.Meaning-

Colors evoke different feelings or emotions, so by understanding the psychology of color, we can utilize brand colors that echo with our target audience.

It’s paramount to realize who your audience is and remember, the approach of colors varies from culture to culture and region to region.

6. Limit color-

We should use a minimal amount of colors in our application, the areas that do receive color receive more attention, such as text, images, and individual elements like buttons.

7.State-

Color can provide information about the state of an app, its components, and its elements.

This is one way that we can display the change of state in our interface. By suppressing the colors of a button, it can indicate that a button is disabled, or by highlighting it in red, it signals an error. We should also conduct our error colors with an error message and an icon to ensure clarity and to appeal to color-blind users.

8.Consistency & context-

We should use the consistency of colors as an interface., so colors always mean the same thing even when the context changes.

If red color is used in our branding, then we should avoid using it to advise about error states. We can use an alternative color to avoid confusion.

This is easy to solve problems, so there’s no reason to avoid using red or yellow in our branding.

9.Color Palettes-

It starts with a simple perception of color theory and basic tools.

Step 1 — Primary & system colors

Step 2 — Creating a palette

Step 3 — Tie it all together

Conclusion

The color theory can be an increasingly complex subject and it is, therefore, advisable to start with the basics. The UI designers can use their knowledge and experience to create more diverse and sophisticated color palettes. Similarly, the UX designers should take its advantage to deliver better user experiences.

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