Feedback needed for design of Flash messages

Brian McLaughlin bmclaugh at redhat.com
Tue Aug 14 22:11:49 UTC 2012


On 08/14/2012 12:31 PM, Matt Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:28:43PM +0200, Jaromír Coufal wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I have designed little bit better visible and usable flash messages
>> for our Conductor UI with much easier structure of HTML and using RH
>> official color palette.
>>
>> http://codepen.io/coufalj/pen/jGspz
>>
>> What do you think about it?
> I think these look much nicer!
>
> However, I've noticed in the past that people can overlook our flash
> messages because they can be so subtle. I think these will help, but I
> wonder if it's worth giving them more aggressive backgrounds or
> something.
>
> I'm not sure it's as attractive, but I just forked that and put this
> together: http://codepen.io/n1zyy/pen/xvfms
>
> (Also: my first entry on codepen.io -- nifty site!)
>
> I just set a background-color set to a lighten()'d version of the border
> color. They're maybe a bit uglier, but they're harder to miss.

I agree with this approach, I think the flash messages are easy to miss 
as well.  Maybe the background color should be darker than you chose 
here Matt.  Nothing too jarring, but something that isn't subconsiously 
dismissed.

>
> Just a thought, in any case.
>
> -- Matt




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