[consulting] On Visual Design Challenges, or Can you make it darker than that?

[Laura]

Our eyes fool us because our brain fills in context, and equates the  
"white" squares as being the same, especially in contrast to the  
"black" squares. It's a great illustration of how we don't see what we  
see, we see what we interpret. (Art 101 exercise: draw a chair in your  
room, but draw only what you see, don't draw lines representing the  
edges -- the lines aren't there. It takes work to see the light  
instead of the form.)

Which informs us on interaction design as well. Identical offerings  
may in fact be seen differently in different contexts because our  
brains interpret them differently.

(I love this stuff!)

Laura

On Oct 24, 2009, at Sat 10/24/09 12:12pm, pwriter at zunzone.com wrote:

> NO-Way!  Are you telling me the squares are the same color?  Oh I  
> got to check this out.
> Thanks,
> Patrick
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [consulting] On Visual Design Challenges, or Can you make
> it darker than that?
> From: Jeff Greenberg <jeff at ayendesigns.com>
> Date: Sat, October 24, 2009 9:12 am
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> <consulting at drupal.org>
>
> The squares are the same color. Both squares are the same color of  
> gray. Test them in a drawing program. The eye adjusts to the  
> surrounding colors...the increased shadowing in the surrounding  
> squares and the perceived contrast cause the optical illusion.
>
> pwriter at zunzone.com wrote:
>> Thanks Matt.  At first I thought they where saying 'squares' where  
>> the same color (wrong), but the A & B are the same color.  There is  
>> no text explaining the 'thing'.
>> Patrick
>
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