Title
Color Builder - A Direct Manipulation Interface for Versatile Color Theme Authoring.
Abstract
Color themes or palettes are popular for sharing color combinations across many visual domains. We present a novel interface for creating color themes through direct manipulation of color swatches. Users can create and rearrange swatches, and combine them into smooth and step-based gradients and three-color blends -- all using a seamless touch or mouse input. Analysis of existing solutions reveals a fragmented color design workflow, where separate software is used for swatches, smooth and discrete gradients and for in-context color visualization. Our design unifies these tasks, while encouraging playful creative exploration. Adjusting a color using standard color pickers can break this interaction flow with mechanical slider manipulation. To keep interaction seamless, we additionally design an in situ color tweaking interface for freeform exploration of an entire color neighborhood. We evaluate our interface with a group of professional designers and students majoring in this field.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3290605.3300686
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
color palettes, color pickers, color themes, creativity support, direct manipulation interfaces, gradients
Visualization,Computer science,Direct manipulation interface,Tweaking,Software,Human–computer interaction,Workflow
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5970-2
2
0.37
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maria Shugrina1102.87
Wenjia Zhang254.26
Fanny Chevalier364936.33
Sanja Fidler42087116.71
Karan Singh5152976.00