The next version of DuckDuckGo

Re:The next version of DuckDuckGo by lisper on Monday May 05, 2014 @04:56PM (#7701188)

+1 on the low contrast comment. It's all the rage nowadays, but this one of those trends that I think people will look back on in a few years and say, "How did anyone ever think that was a good idea?"

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Re:The next version of DuckDuckGo by edwintorok on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:13AM (#7704533)

lower contrast is not bad, I don't want all text to be #000 and #fff, but the contrast on DuckDuckGo is too low. As it says here your text should be as readable as #333 on #fff: http://ia.net/blog/100e2r/

There are also some WCAG guidelines on contrast.

Here are some contrast checkers: http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ http://www.checkmycolours.com/

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Re:The next version of DuckDuckGo by Pacabel on Monday May 05, 2014 @06:17PM (#7701650)

Most sensible people see that it's a bad idea, and they can see this today (if not yesterday). This isn't the kind of thing that requires hindsight to see that it's a bad idea through and through.

If anything should be questioned in hindsight, it should be why so many managers and executives allowed designers to seriously submit such bad ideas for consideration, never mind allowing such unusable designs to actually be implemented.

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