# How I deal with colorblindness as a digital product designer

DevFeed: [How I deal with colorblindness as a digital product designer](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-i-deal-with-colorblindness-as-a-digital-product-designer-9391.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://a11yproject.com/posts/how-i-deal-with-colorblindness-as-a-digital-product-designer/>)

Author: Federico Monaco

Published: 2021-10-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The A11Y Project](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-a11y-project.md>)

Topics: [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [Tool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tool.md>)

Tags: [a11y](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/a11y.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [digital-products](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-products.md>), [interfaces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interfaces.md>), [products](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/products.md>), [user-research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-research.md>)

## AI overview

A colorblind digital product designer describes the barriers colorblind people can encounter when using websites and applications, and the challenges colorblind designers may face when creating digital interfaces. Drawing on personal experience and user research, the article advocates designing digital products that do not rely on color alone to convey information.

## Source excerpt

Colorblindness is any visual anomaly where someone has an altered perception of colors. It can be total or partial. The A11Y Project already has an article that exhaustively covers the different types of color blindness while also providing tools that you can use during your design phases. In this article, I'd like to tell you what it means to be a colorblind designer and what the main problems are that someone with colorblindness can encounter if they decide to pursue a career as a designer. Colorblindness from a user's point of view During elementary school, like most colorblind people, I discovered that I have deuteranomaly, the most common form of colorblindness: I have a deficit in the sensitivity of my green color receptors. In my offline life, it's never caused me too much inconvenience, other than the strange color combinations of my clothes. Growing up and during my introduction to the internet and the first video-game consoles, I encountered more barriers than I had expected. From then on, I started using special filters if an application offered them, and I preferred to browse sites that didn't over rely on color alone to convey information. Recently, I was pondering whether most people with colorblindness had problems online or whether I was one of the few people to experience that. Through deep user research I found two interesting answers: the first is that I wasn't the only person with colorblindness to have problems online; the second is that, unfortunately, I found many more people than I had imagined. In light of this, I decided to write a manifesto of ten rules that all designers should follow to create digital products that are more accessible to the colorblind community. Working as a colorblind designer In addition to being a colorblind internet user, I am also a colorblind designer. This part of me comes into play when I have to design digital interfaces, either alone or as part of a team. When I'm part of a team, I immediately let people know