Overview
This project began with a stakeholder request: explore whether the header’s background color could dynamically adapt to the base color of a page’s background image. The goal was to create a seamless visual transition between the header and its background, enhancing the overall aesthetic and usability.
Key notes
- Innovative Thinking: Tackled a unique design challenge with a blend of technical and creative solutions.
- Dynamic Prototyping: Delivered a working prototype that dynamically adapted to changing visuals in real time.
- User-Centered Aesthetic: Enhanced the visual coherence of the page while maintaining usability.
My Role
As a UX Engineer / Design Technologist, I led the exploration and prototyping of this concept. My work spanned from research and experimentation to building a functional prototype that demonstrated the solution.
Process
- Research and Exploration
- Investigated methods to extract the dominant color from background images.
- Experimented with color analysis tools and algorithms to identify a reliable and efficient solution.
- Prototyping
- Wrote a small, lightweight script to dynamically analyze the base color of background images.
- Built a prototype that enabled background images to change on the fly, with the header’s background color adapting in real time to the dominant color of the image.
- Validation
- Created a working prototype to showcase the concept, allowing stakeholders to visualize the impact of dynamic header color adaptation.
Outcome
The prototype successfully demonstrated the feasibility of dynamically adapting the header’s background color to complement page visuals. It opened up possibilities for future exploration of adaptive design and dynamic theming in digital interfaces.