[consulting] On Visual Design Challenges, or Can you make it darker than that?
Laura
pinglaura at gmail.com
Sat Oct 24 18:33:23 UTC 2009
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
> To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
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> 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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