Pocahontas meets Statue of Liberty
Years ago, I watched a show on HGTV and I think some couple bought an old building that used to be a residential school and they were restoring it.
There was an impressive staircase in the foyer and the statue from the guard rail was missing. There were mo photos, so they interviewed people.
Some people said it looked like Pocahontas. Other people said it looked kind of like the Statue of Liberty.
When they found a piece that fit both conflicting descriptions, they knew they had the original statue from the entranceway.
People organize information according to what they already know. They pattern match to existing knowledge.
Whatever you think November West Wears is about, you're probably wrong. You are pattern matching to existing experience and the entire point is the clothes shopping experience I want doesn't exist.
I'm trying to get better about saying things like wine red instead of just red and I linked to purple mauve in one wardrobe post because most people hear "purple" and think of a clownish color not appropriate for office wear.
Frankly, my target market is probably serious career women failing to get ahead because they aren't fashionistas and they don't see any point in becoming fashionistas because the fashion industry doesn't really offer them a means to dress for success.
They are good at their job but can't compete with the men because they don't come across as professional and polished and they don't see a solution because do you have any idea how hard it is to find clothes that covers your cleavage to try to meet business casual dress code?
So I am trying to raise the bar on communicating what I mean from my end because if I were doing something "normal," I could talk to fashion industry insiders who know all the fancy clothing words and color words and have some hope that words would be meaningful communication but neither fashion industry insiders nor serious career women in need of a clothing solution are likely to readily understand me.
I'm a blogger with a Certificate in GIS where I was trained in essentials of good map design. Two points:
1. Limit your color coding to seven colors.
2. Yellow is a horribly strong color. Use it sparingly. Don't color code Russia or China as yellow.
As a blogger, I pick colors for my websites and I've done a lot of that over the years. Colors for maps and websites are not just chosen to make it "pretty." It's for purposes of legibility.
If you pick pretty colors that go well together and it impedes readability and navigation, you've failed. If you've picked readable but ugly colors that no one wants to look at and they leave your website because of it, you've also failed.
A good map will generally be viewed as beautiful but a pretty map isn't necessarily a good map. This is beauty similar to how good engineering tends to appeal to the eye.
Color coordination in design work of that sort must pass a test of functionality. So does color coordination in power dressing.