> I've never left a website because of its color scheme. There's no issue.
As you say on your own web site, sometimes you just get it, sometimes you just don't.
Colours do provoke emotional responses, whether or not the viewer realises it, and people do measurably change their behaviour as a result. Legal pads are yellow because it increases concentration. Performers wait in green rooms because it calms nerves. People who wear dark blue suits to interviews are more likely to get hired.
> I've come to the conclusion that [these kinds of blogs] serve to inspire bored designers by exciting them with this pleasant gimmickry, but never really help past a momentary aesthetic stimulus.
Sometimes, a momentary source of inspiration is all you need.
Sometimes, you encounter that inspiration a long time before you find the right time to act on it.
The examples you named (legal pads, green rooms), all of which I was aware of, are rather psychological examples of what I meant by a discussion of substance. What she's exemplifying is a solid strategy for brainstorming color schemes and nothing more. The way she presents her color schemes allows them no function besides eye-candy.
Inspiration that sticks with you for later is observed naturally in a real-life context that makes you remember it, not by demand in the midst of a hoard of formulaic pinterest posts.
As you say on your own web site, sometimes you just get it, sometimes you just don't.
Colours do provoke emotional responses, whether or not the viewer realises it, and people do measurably change their behaviour as a result. Legal pads are yellow because it increases concentration. Performers wait in green rooms because it calms nerves. People who wear dark blue suits to interviews are more likely to get hired.
> I've come to the conclusion that [these kinds of blogs] serve to inspire bored designers by exciting them with this pleasant gimmickry, but never really help past a momentary aesthetic stimulus.
Sometimes, a momentary source of inspiration is all you need.
Sometimes, you encounter that inspiration a long time before you find the right time to act on it.