Q: My husband and I both like the color gray, so I was glad to see a number of the designers in a show house used gray on the walls. But they also used beige furniture and a beige-and-gray plaid rug.

Clashing colors demand attention, with rooms that include them often seen as bold and challenging. On the color wheel, colors that sit opposite each other are considered contrasting, and therefore, in ...

Color contrast refers to the difference between the brightness of the background color and foreground color of digital content. It’s crucial in design, art and visual communication as it affects ...

Color plays an important part in a design. Colors evoke emotions, feelings, and ideas. Colors can also help strengthen a brand’s message and perception. Yet the power of colors is lost when a user can ...

Jerry Cao is a UX content strategist at UXPin — the wireframing and prototyping app. To learn more about how to create visually digestible interfaces, download the free e-book Web UI Design for the ...

Have you ever visited a webpage, or opened a document that was difficult to read because of its color contrast? It was probably because the contrast between the background and foreground wasn’t ...

Wait, isn’t color on a website just used for aesthetics? No. Color is used for so much more than the attractiveness of a website. Research shows that color is crucial in shaping customers’ perceptions ...