The day I realized my mockups had been wrong for 6 months straight

I was showing a client my latest portfolio piece and she kept squinting at the screen. Finally she asked why all my UI designs had the navigation bar on the right side. I was so confused because I thought that was normal. Turns out I had accidentally flipped my entire design template horizontally about 6 months ago and just never noticed. Every single project since then had everything mirrored backward. I even had a client in Austin who signed off on a completely backwards layout and we launched it that way. It took a random question from that one client to make me go back and check all my old work. Has anyone else ever missed something this obvious for way too long?

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troy_butler710d agoMost Upvoted

Wait until you hear about the mirror selfie generation…

thompson.xena9d ago

Man, did you see that post @troy_butler7 put up? A buddy of mine tried to take a mirror selfie at a gas station bathroom and accidentally got a whole cleaning crew photobombing him holding mops and buckets. He didn't notice until he posted it and his mom replied asking if he joined a janitor team.