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Discussion on: Do not just use color to convey information

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Michiel Hendriks

It is such an easy check: convert to grayscale. It should be criminal that designers don't do it.
And it's not just for colorblind people, because that mostly applies to white males. The grayscale test is also good way to check how well your design works on displays which do not have ideal situations. For example: glossy screens, screens in the sun, non-calibrated screen, TN panels, non-calibrated glossy TN panel screens in the sun, ...

PS, Pie/donuts charts should be thrown out completely. They generally suck in providing comparative information. A bar chart can shown the different between 35% and 40%, a pie chart not so much, unless you add interactive elements to it.