The Principles of Dark UI Design

 By Medium - 2020-12-16

Description

Dark UIs can be stylish, dramatic, and elegant. But despite the potential benefits, they come with many challenges and potential pitfalls.

Summary

  • Dark UI designs are seen far and wide, from mobile screens to massive TVs.
  • It not only improves usability, and therefore UX, it’s the law in most countries.
  • Depth helps to emphasize the visual hierarchy of an interface.
  • In some instances, it might be best to specify an element’s text color as true black (#000000) in the design system to achieve good contrast on a light gray background.

 

Topics

  1. UX (0.27)
  2. NLP (0.17)
  3. Backend (0.04)

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