What pill packs teach us about label design
Medicine packaging is some of the most carefully tested design in the world. Here is what I borrowed from it.
Pharmaceutical packaging has to work for tired, stressed and sometimes frightened people. That makes it a great teacher.
Hierarchy that saves time
Name first, strength second, instructions third. Never the other way round.
Colour with a job
Colour is used to separate strengths and variants, not to decorate. The same rule works for pricing tiers and status labels on screen.
Test with real hands
Packaging gets tested with gloves on, with poor light and with reading glasses missing. Interfaces deserve the same honesty.