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Met a guy at the hardware store who was picking paint samples by holding them up to his phone screen in sunlight
He said he was trying to match the contrast he saw on his work monitor to real life, and it hit me that I never check my designs outdoors where actual people might see them...
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felix47813d ago
The part about "matching the contrast he saw on his work monitor to real life" is exactly what got me too. I used to design stuff on my laptop inside and think it looked great, then I'd see it out in the world and it'd look totally different. What worked for me was just taking my laptop outside for five minutes during lunch. I'd open a design and look at it in direct sun, in shade, even on a cloudy day. It was a pain at first but now I do it automatically with every project. Those real world conditions show you stuff your monitor just can't, like glare or washed out colors. Simple habit but it saved me from a lot of bad looking final products.
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riley59513d ago
@felix478 that laptop outside habit is genius, kind of like how we forget screens lie about colors until we see stuff in real light.
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