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Re:Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins by jacques_chester on Saturday May 28, 2016 @03:07PM (#11792921)
> Our brain is really good at color cues, and especially red = danger is deeply wired into us!

Except for the colourblind, who need additional ways for that information to be conveyed.

I like red/green schemes too, but there always needs to be other cues.

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Re:Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins by jamesdwilson on Saturday May 28, 2016 @03:31PM (#11793040)
so that can be an option instead of crippling everyone else.
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Re:Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins by jacques_chester on Saturday May 28, 2016 @03:53PM (#11793144)
It's not an either/or proposition, designs can accommodate both.

The simplest approach is to add a symbol for failures, to distinguish them from successes. Other colours can be chosen for other statuses that the colour-blind can distinguish without additional symbols.

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Re:Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins by i386 on Saturday May 28, 2016 @07:28PM (#11794039)
> It's not an either/or proposition, designs can accommodate both.

And Blue Ocean accommodates both. I think this would be a good blog post :)

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