Amelia Whitfield@amelia · 2h

We rebuilt our billing screens around one rule: colour marks the exception, never the layout. Overdue is the only thing that gets to be red.

Replies are visible to everyone following this thread.

Showing most relevant replies first

Marcus Bell@marcusb · 1h

This is the part most dashboards get wrong. Six status colours and everything looks equally urgent.

  • Amelia Whitfield@amelia · 58m

    Exactly. We capped ourselves at two hues for the whole surface and it forced better hierarchy everywhere else.

Sofia Alvarez@sofia.a · 44m

Curious how you handle the “nearing limit” case. That one always wants to be its own colour.