I loved flipping through LPs at the record store and would usually go through everything at my favorite stores. The flap-flap-flap of the cardboard sleeves was so soothing.
There actually is a science for this: it's called accessibility. WCAG guidelines would be extremely useful in determining how colors should be combined and applied to meet contrast guidelines.
It would also be useful to create usage contexts to guide additions to the palette. for example: text + background, ui (border, icon) + background, background + background.
These would help identify common situations and ensure that you're adding the colors you need and avoiding future bloat.
Since companies are now being sued over a11y issues, it's definitely something that should be incorporated into the design process from the beginning.
Yes WCAG guidelines are useful. But, for me as a novice empathic but still a novice, they are not easy to use. At the very least, finding definitive examples and such often eludes me.
That aside, thanks for mentioning accessibility and #A11Y.
Steve Schoger does a great job of designing with accessibility in mind! The future book that this chapter will be rolled into contains a whole discussion on it. If you check out the Refactoring UI screencasts, he uses an app (called Contrast, if you're curious) to make sure things meet AA minimum requirements.
You can buy a VW e-golf since at least 2015. It's a great car, but by no means a Tesla competitor. It retails for close to $30k, I got mine for under $20k after the federal rebate.
IIRC, VW only really got into the electric car game as a condition of their emissions cheating settlement. FWIW.
GM made an electric car. People liked it. For whatever reason GM decided to stop selling them and crushed all the cars. Mainly because the laws changed saying they didn't have to lower emissions.Also gas was super cheap. There is a great doc called who killed the electic car.
It's an interesting and compelling story, and she deserves credit for her invention, but it's a serious exaggeration to say that she invented spread spectrum, or that current technology is based on her idea.
There were actual scientists working on these technologies back in her day whose work informed spread spectrum's development directly. Because she had no real connection to the scientific community, Lamarr's patent didn't do much beyond languish in a file cabinet, I'm afraid.
