I finally compared my app's dark mode on an OLED vs LCD phone side by side

So I was at the Verizon store last week picking up a new charger and I noticed they had both a Samsung OLED and an older LCD phone on display. I pulled up my app on both and holy cow the difference was huge. Dark mode on the OLED looked clean and the text was sharp but on the LCD the same dark backgrounds looked washed out and grayish. The buttons I designed with a subtle drop shadow totally disappeared on the LCD screen. I never would have caught this if I just kept testing on my own phone. Has anyone else run into this where your design looks great on one device but falls apart on another type of screen?

2 comments

2 Comments

miles_jackson913d ago

This is just how things work in basically every product category now. A friend of mine bought a fancy burgundy hoodie online that looked great on his phone but under the store lights it was straight up brown. Design choices like contrast and shadow depth are completely at the mercy of whatever screen or lighting the other person is using.

angela_wilson7813d ago

Wait, is that really true about the lighting changing the color that much @miles_jackson9? I always thought it was just a screen setting thing.