First blog

Colors play a major role in manipulating a persons mood. Because I am creating a e-learning system for DOCS here are the colors I would chose:

-         Culture of the organization- a medium blue (I believe this represents a professional versatile atmosphere that is relaxed)

-         Corporate Colours- These would be the darker tones i.e black, silver, with a mixture of white as well (this creates a simple but sophisticated feel)

-         Fashion- this one can be quiet tricky! I think its personal choice but in an e-learning context possible light orange, pink, and green to create a fun pastal effect that doesn’t hurt the eyes!

-         Your message- This would be in plain black to attract the learners eye and demand authority and professionalism

Colors can vary across cultures. In Australia we like to use bright colors, which is quiet different to Hong Kong. When I went to Hong Kong the majority of the clothes and advertisements did not have pastal colors but rather colors of brown, grey, black and white.

I believe that as a –learning facilitator there should not be too many bright colors used on websites as it can hurt the learners eyes and distract them from learning the important things that really need attention to..