Choosing colors is a pivotal but challenging component of graphic design. The paper presents an intelligent interaction technique supporting designers' creativity in color design. It fills a gap in the literature by proposing an integrated technique for color exploration, assignment, and refinement: CoColor. Our design goals were 1) let designers focus on color choice by freeing them from pixel-level editing and 2) support rapid flow between low- and high-level decisions. Our interaction technique utilizes three steps - choice of focus, choice of suitable colors, and the colors' application to designs - wherein the choices are interlinked and computer-assisted, thus supporting divergent and convergent thinking. It considers color harmony, visual saliency, and elementary accessibility requirements. The technique was incorporated into the popular design tool Figma and evaluated in a study with 16 designers. Participants explored the coloring options more easily with CoColor and considered it helpful.
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CoColor: Interactive Exploration of Color Designs.
IUI 2023.
@inproceedings{hegemann2023cocolor,
author = {Hegemann, Lena and Dayama, Niraj Ramesh and Iyer, Abhishek and Farhadi, Erfan and Marchenko, Ekaterina and Oulasvirta, Antti},
title = {CoColor: Interactive Exploration of Color Designs},
year = {2023},
isbn = {979-8-4007-0106-1/23/03},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3581641.3584089},
doi = {10.1145/3581641.3584089},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces},
location = {Sydney, NSW, Australia},
series = {IUI '23}}
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