While Apple usually gets kudos for excellence in design, I have to say that their stylish take sometimes has drawbacks. Such as this new site they created, showing iPhone availability at a store near you.
Using tiny red and green dots is in keeping with Apple’s sense of style. But many of us — such as myself — have a common form of colorblindness, which means that we can’t differentiate between the tiny green dot and the tiny red dot. They look like the same color.
Please, please, please. If you are a web designer, I implore you to avoid this situation with a very simple solution: you can continue to differentiate with color, but also differentiate by shape. A red “X” and a green checkmark would have eliminated any problems here.
