I Know The Guy Who Owns This Place

As a product manager and the guy working with the design folks at Redfin each day, I spend a lot of my time looking at “comps” (Photoshop image files for something that will be turned into web pages.) Comps are used to tune up the design ideas and execution until it’s ready for developers to crank out the final product.

Most of the time in a comp, there’s a minor, trivial error (capitalization, missing underlines, something silly like that) that I notice and point out. This isn’t really because designers are all sloppy; they spend their time focused on the minute details of the colors, lines, images and alignment. Often they’ve stared at it so long they can’t even really “see it” anymore; sort of like highway hypnosis, but with Photoshop. I get to come along with a “fresh pair” of eyes and it’s easy then to find those things.

My friend, Mike, sent over the Photoshop Disasters blog which takes this effort of detecting Photoshop errors to a whole new level. Some are just creepy, others <a href=”http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2008/03/readers-digest-maybe-its-vampirephone.html”>observant and others, just rude.

But in the end, it makes for a lot of fun and realization that we’re all human and working too fast to not make a mistake here and there.

~ by bryan on April 5, 2008.