Two times in the last few hours I’ve found areas of a design that could be improved by using one simple trick:
By shifting my perspective, literally, I was able to see the design in a different way. Here are some practical exercises to literally shift your perspective:
- Turn the entire design upside down. While it may look funny to turn a laptop upside down, it’s totally doable and allows you to see how a design flows vertically.
- Look at the design on the screen from an extreme angle left or right to see how the design flows horizontally.
- Zoom way in and pixel-peep design. I did this to confirm the baseline was consistent by zooming in and literally holding a ruler to my screen.
Do you consistently use any of these tricks to help you look at design?
I have found it is much easier to just stand on your head than flip your screen.
Kind of a matrix-y “don’t bend the spoon around your mind, bend your mind around the spoon” type of thing, but hey, whatever.