[Clipart] [Bug 3974] Interface improvements

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------- Additional Comments From jonadab at bright.net  2005-08-16 17:25 -------
> Let's brainstom and see what does comunicate browsing

Right.  It's a thorny problem.  My first-draft button used the white
pointing-finger  graphic, which is intended to resemble how a web browser makes
the mosue cursor look when hovering over a link.  But it's awefully plain, and
maybe it doesn't convey "browse" very well either.  The book isn't doing it for
me, and I agree that the folder doesn't really fit with the type of browsing
that we're getting at here.  A disembodied eyeball is liable to gross people
out...  Spectacles, maybe?  "Browse" is a hard thing to communicate visually.

What if we use for that button a graphic that communicates the idea of artwork,
since that's what's being browsed?  Would that work?

Now, back to the button colors...

> It might work to tone down the gradient (which should be red to yellow
> btw, with a bit of orange in the middle) but what I really noticed when
> looking at the mocks is that the brightly colored buttons really jumped 
> out where as jonathans really blended well with the rest of the site. 
> My problem is that they blended almost to well. I know that yellow goes 
> really well against a blue background.  Maybe the button overall should 
> be blue and the text colored. It is a graphic after all and I'm hoping 
> to have it stand out more.

I think this paragraph hits the nail on the head:  the blue buttons don't
stand out as well as we might like, and the orange ones are a bit much,
calling too much attention to the background.  Something in between may 
be called for.

I'm wondering if maybe the background of the buttons, rather than being a
simple gradient, should maybe have some texture, to make it pop out a bit
more, without going all out for the blinding colors.          
     
     
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