My manager was getting really annoyed at me trying to discuss color combinations based on feedback from our China team in the company (they handle the content and copy of our Chinese site.)
We're all growing, and I'm still learning about user experience. With Black Friday coming up, I was asked by the China team to avoid turning a button on our site black with white text on it (written in Mandarin) because it's very similar to, what I was told, a strip of black rectangle with white text on it that people in some Chinese funerals use on their arm (I haven't confirmed this.)
At first I thought it was silly because we use black and white all the time in every culture, we see it on popular brands as well. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that in western culture, we also are hesitant to use certain color combinations as well sometimes because of what we associate those colors with. Such as red and green for Christmas, black and orange for Halloween, pastels for Easter, etc.
I told him this but he was getting so annoyed at me trying to make him see the other side that he was starting to roll his eyes. At that point I just gave up. I know he's got a personal thing against the leader of the China team in our company, and as a result does not really contribute much to their site.
Anyway, I can see it being farfetched, but at the same, who am I to know what things are like in a culture I've never experienced?
In the end, I decided to go with a really dark gray, and told one person in their team that it was stressing me out and I didn't have the time to spend more on the button (I'm gonna be off all thanksgiving week.)
Has anyone ever had a similar experience, or have any suggestions for me?
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Submitted November 18, 2016 at 05:51PM by unfamiliar_road http://ift.tt/2g31dCZ
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