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• Adrian Howard commented on The map is not the territory.
  As I mentioned briefly above, I think a lot of it is due to self selection. Someone with vision issues like mine would likely never get into a design educational program or if they did would quickly drop or flunk out. So the people in the field have no experience with the issue as a rule. Actually there are quite a lot of designers who are colour blind in one way or another. Including some very successful ones (e.g. Jon Hicks http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/how-to-survive-as-a-colourblind-designer) Interestingly many people "colour blind" are actually better at other kinds of visual perception (e.g. folks with some...
• Adrian Howard commented on The map is not the territory.
  Plus I can't "see" faces in a crowd. I'm not colour blind, but I do I have this problem - in fact a general problem with recognising people in different contexts. This may (emphasis on the may) be related to prosopagnosia (face blindness). Which, as more research is being done, is beginning to look like it might be more of a spectrum disorder like autism or synesthesia rather than a have-it / don't-have-it issue. See https://www.faceblind.org/ if you want to have a poke around the subject, which includes some online tests ( http://www.faceblind.org/facetests/index.php ). I score in the high-thirties /...
• nelc commented on The map is not the territory.
  With a little tweaking, that could also be a great test for nominative amnesia. ("How come I can remember the phrase 'nominative amnesia' but I can't remember people's names?") This morning I seem to have lost my list of American comedians (and the male half of Brangelina), but it looks like the self-marking system is designed to get around that....
• nelc commented on The map is not the territory.
  Actually, if your verbal map of colours affects your ability to distinguish colours, then shouldn't my mild nominative amnesia affect my ability to distinguish people? Or for that matter shouldn't prosopagnosiacs have trouble keeping people's roles separate in their minds?...
• zhochaka commented on The map is not the territory.
  I have just seen the latest version of some software I use. There was some extensive reworking of the user interface, but it is stucj with the same dreary, hard-to-read, colour scheme of grey on grey, Back in the v1 days, there was a choice of colour schemes, but that vanished with v2, and it's now at v3.5. Text, such as the menu across the top of the screen, is leght grey on a darker grey. Highlight a tab, and the colour is "teal", which is a sort of grey-green to my eyes. It ignores all the Windows settings for...