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veen  ·  3880 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Making Sense of Population Density | veenspace

Thanks!

    I wonder what 4 people in Houston is compatible to?

Reaaaally low densities!

    One thing to note, it's called a basketball "court" not "field."

Damn. I think it's an unwritten law that in every creation, there's a flaw that you only spot after you share it with people.





insomniasexx  ·  3879 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Damn. I think it's an unwritten law that in every creation, there's a flaw that you only spot after you share it with people.

Yeah. Get used to it. I probably should have caught that too but (1) I don't know / care for sports and (2) don't look for those sorts of things. For example, management at my company has asked on multiple occasions (at least 3 times since this January), "how the hell did you misspell the name of the company you work for??"

The answer: because I'm looking at typography, layout, whitespace, grid, hierarchy, and how to make the words you (management) adds fit in the space I designed. I'm not looking at how words are spelled. I only see how the letter forms appear in the broader design aesthetic.

After I have been designing something with multiple revisions over a couple consecutive days, I simply don't see those errors anymore. On Hubski or in MS Word, I immediately see that I misspelled the word "those". But when I'm designing, I could spell "those" as "thise" and not notice it through 3 or 4 or even 5 rounds of revisions. If I look at it and read it a few days later, I immediately see it. But when I am designing, it is almost like my brain is in a different mode.