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Make prominance icon for normal requests on admin pages green #7095

Closed RichardTaylor closed 1 year ago

RichardTaylor commented 2 years ago

Currently the coloured icons indicating prominence of requests on admin pages are:

I have repeatedly found myself initially assuming black and white means "greyed out" / "not public", which is not the case.

I think green for normal would be more intuitive for me.

garethrees commented 2 years ago

Green isn't great from the POV of colour-blindness.

I also think that this would make the UI harder to use, in that the intention is to make not-normal things stand out. if normal things are green (or blue – a colour-blind friendly alternative), then it competes with the intentionally highlighted not-normal things.

Perhaps we should mute the non-normal colours a bit more?

garethrees commented 1 year ago

Closing this as we've been running as is for quite a while now and I think it's working pretty well generally.

normal - black and white / grey

Just to clarify, "normal" has no background "circle". The icon only gets the background when it's in a non-default state.

Grey is backpage.

Also considering something like https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/7565, so trying to minimise where we use lots of colour elements.