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[Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6 March 2012 06:33, Huw Wilkins <huw.wilkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The way we usually use colours in Launchpad is to signify progression or
> importance. The other reason we use colour is for recognition of common
> elements. Different kinds of information don't necessarily deserve their own
> colours unless we want to reinforce one of the previous patterns.
>
> The important distinction here is between public and private data and we do
> that already by showing privacy banners.
>
> The colours won't tell the whole story to most users who will only see one
> or two statuses and the rest will only be visible to a low number of users.
>
> We might consider using colours is if we find users are having trouble
> distinguishing between data in different types of policies, but I'm not sure
> just colouring the name of the policy would be enough.

So, the decision is that we shouldn't colourise the policy names. Thanks Huw.

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Matthew Revell
Launchpad Product Manager
Canonical

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