No Other Choice: Zuckerberg's Health Issue Decided Design of social network

Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
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Mark Zuckerberg
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The co-founder of network had a reasonable excuse.

Picking a color is always an important factor while designing a new website. From 2004 onwards, the features and outlay of our network have changed many times, but the color remained irreversibly blue. We didn’t consider red, green, or other shades.

Turns out, Mark Zuckerberg himself was responsible for such a decision. The founder suffered from red-green colorblindness, meaning blue was the color he could see best.

"Blue is the richest color for me," he told the magazine. "I can see all of blue."