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rajbee
rajbee
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Posted by rajbee
rajbee
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How does flipping a page upside down really help ?

Please show an example where flipping clearly shows visual flaws in the web page.

2 Answers

Jonah Stuart
Jonah Stuart
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Jonah Stuart
Jonah Stuart
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The concept is to abstract from the subject matter and focus on the structure.

In my experience, this has been less about finding visual flaws that are imperceivable. But more to help you, the person who's been staring at and fighting with the layout, abstract away the hours of design decisions and content struggles, and pull it back to the fundamentals of form. You stop reading what it says and focusing on the details and start focusing on colors, shapes, and space. You can figure out where the visual hierarchy falls flat a little easier, are the things you notice first, second, and third the things you want you're user to be noticing in that order?

These are all things you're probably thinking about as you design, but turning it upside can just help wash away some of the decision blindness you may be experiencing at that particular moment. Walking away from the design for a length of time can have similar effects. It's not always great, but it can help if you're stuck.

rajbee
rajbee
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rajbee
rajbee
6,657 Points

I still don't understand the point, other than it helps to distract you from reading the text on a webpage.

Jonah Stuart
Jonah Stuart
9,199 Points
Jonah Stuart
Jonah Stuart
9,199 Points

It might better frame the practice to understand where it's most commonly used. Painting, drawing, etc... The purpose is to purely make you forget about the subject matter and think about the form, and too look at the form in a way that is unfamiliar (reversed) to help draw out the weak spots in the composition.