Overthinking on Subsurface mobile app UX

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Wed Jun 21 13:19:59 PDT 2017


> On Jun 21, 2017, at 1:13 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Davide DB <dbdavide at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Should we differentiate download by sex?
> 
> No, I think the whole "pink for women" is actually pretty stupid.

I dive with a pink regulator...

> I like the pink theme, and like the ability to theme a bit in general,
> but I don't think we should see it as a "appealing to women" thing. In
> fact, if we do only blue vs pink, I think we should default to pink
> exactly to *not* make it appear to be some kind of special option for
> women.
> 
> The pink is a bit odd, but I find that I might actually use it myself.
> It's a fun and unexpected color.
> 
> Although I do think that we need a boring color too. Not everybody
> will like pink (regardless of gender).

So I guess I will allow multiple color schemes. That's what I get for 
following along.

/D


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