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So according to the usability test, "7/11 participants failed to interpret the meaning of blue".
How many interpreted the meaning of green? Was it any better?
I'd be surprised if Michael quoted above, for example, would say: "I don't know why it would need to be blue ... but green, green makes sense to me."
Or if Hansie would change his belief that "The fact that it is present indicates there is something there for me to do" merely because it was sometimes green rather than sometimes blue (if he even saw that happen).
If the logic is, "the menu is where we list notifications, therefore the indicator has to be there all the time, therefore we need to use visual design to distinguish new messages received or not", then maybe the premise is wrong.