왜 많은 제어실이 Seafoam Green으로 칠해졌는가 (2025)

This piece demonstrates that color serves functional purposes for safety and efficiency far beyond decoration, drawing on Faber Birren's research that shaped industrial standards for decades. The rise of minimalist design has stripped away these empirically-proven principles, eroding visual affordances users depend on—creating a gap between contemporary aesthetics and usability science. For product designers, the article challenges whether trendy design choices are sacrificing human-centered, evidence-based principles proven generations ago.