(Other) Colors for Gixen WEB and the DTM

[digagixen]

Hello,

what do you think of this color scheme for Gixen DTM?


For active offers:

White - if I hadn't set any bid yet
Green - if I had set a bid and there is no other bidder
Yellow - there is/are other bidder(s), I had set a bid
which is higher than the current price
(But with still the risk that my max bid is not sufficient)
Red - my max bid is too low


Old auctions:

White - ended and I had not set any bid
Green - won the auction
Red - lost the autction



Thus I think, with a quick glance
you can see the status for your biddings
and if necessary act.

[mario]

Red is already used for editing, and yellow for max bid under current price. I am open, however, to adding more colors that don't change the existing meaning of these two colors.

[Guest]

[Rickajho]

Your color scheme plan seems to imply a false assumption: that bids placed via gixen are tracked in real time at the gixen web interface. Which they are not.

Rick

[Gixen]

[Blagbox]

The traffic light system makes sense with minor modifications to keep it in line with existing colour usage.

YELLOW - no bid entered or below min (as now)
WHITE - bid entered and above current bid (as now)
ORANGE - bid entered is BELOW current bid or bid increment

RED - Editing (as now)

Then AFTER the auction has ended...
PINK (actually a paler shade of RED) - you LOST
GREEN (a light shade) - you WON.

The lighter shades would easily identify auctions that have ended.

I realise that Gixen does not update auctions in real time so WHITE/ORANGE would not necessarily be up to date, but where you enter a bid a day or more in advance it should update sufficiently that you’d be warned a few hours before the end that your bid is now too low. ie pretty much as it does now but ORANGE brings more attention to it than reverting to YELLOW.

[Blagbox]

Sorry my mistake.

YELLOW would only be for BID NOT ENTERED.
Once you add a bid it would either be WHITE (valid) or ORANGE (too low).

[gixturtle]

I’m new to Gixen but am excited by the possibilities and wish I would have found this sooner. I won my first auction and have become a Mirror subscriber. As far as using colors to glean some quick status info…

How about a break line between ENDED and ACTIVE (new feature), green if a winner (new feature).
All other coloring remains as is.

ENDED (WHITE/GRAY = LOST)
ENDED (GREEN = YOU WON) (new feature)
ENDED (WHITE/GRAY = LOST)
==================== (ENDED/ACTIVE BREAK LINE new feature)
ACTIVE (WHITE/GRAY)
ACTIVE (WHITE/GRAY)
ACTIVE (WHITE/GRAY)
ACTIVE (YELLOW, YOU ARE OUTBID)
ACTIVE (WHITE/GRAY)
ACTIVE (WHITE/GRAY)
ACTIVE (WHITE/GRAY)

or maybe instead of the single break line, you might prefer 2 headings...

[ENDED]
blaw blaw blaw (GREEN for winners)

[ACTIVE]
blaw blaw blaw (no color changes)