text-align: center

Designer: “it’s not cantered, it’s 2px too much to the left”

Me: *does nothing* “what about now?”

Designer: “perfect”

Yup. This IS the Truman show.

I had actual cases, where it just looked misaligned (but it wasn't when counting pixels on a zoomed-in screenshot) and adding a tiny positioning offset actually did the trick.

@Oktokolo good to know! In this case it really didn’t look off, but I’ll keep it in mind!

My first professional project had a bunch of requests for changes after the first mvp demo

Second meeting I was about to apologize for not making any changes....

"Don't change anything, we love the changes!"

...

I don't get this pixel perfection nonsense. Why can't a designer gain basic html/css knowledge. This would make discussion so much easier.

@rEaL-jAsE Ops 😂

@Benutzername imho pixel obsession is a red flag on a company’s health.
When a “move x 1px to the left” ticket is open and the manager doesn’t raise an eyebrow, it means the internal processes are screwed up.

@N00bPancakes yes, the changes for the program, the changes I’ve made exclusively for the program. The program and its changes… those ones?

@Benutzername
In general, designers or, even worse, marketing doesn't care about the tech and whether it technically is aligned perfectly or not. They want it to look like it is aligned perfectly.

The illusion of misalignment is a real thing because visual weight is a real thing. When aligning elements of very different visual weights technically perfect, they may look slightly misaligned:
<https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/...>

But sometimes, cleaning the monitor fixes it too :P

@Oktokolo perception/psychology is a bitch.

@Wisecrack
Actually, visual weight perception is a pretty good thing as it reduces object detection and classification time.
When designing/layouting anything, you obviously have to work with - not against - it.

When someone mentions pixel-perfect somewhere near me, they get a friendly but firm slap on their face ☺️

@kiki everything should be pixel perfect. Go to a restaurant and if they put the food in your plate in a non-pixel perfect way ask to see the manager.
(Or if we wanna be boring if one of the internal tools is not pixel perfect open an issue… but it’s less fun)

margin: 0px auto;

@ILMostro ah dw there were no margins nor padding involved

I once read about someone who made a website for a client. The client didn't like the placement of the logo and asked the developer to move the logo 1px to the left...

The developer just pressed the left key on the keyboard, without anything happening.

The client loved it.

Another story about something I used to do.

My client ran an e-commerce website and often complained about the speed.

After fixing the site, it was my job to prepare a performance report. Which would outline things done and results after.

After the first two times I did this, I would always send the same report over and over again to the client with the date changed. the client always appreciated their faster website.

@uziiuzair everything runs smooth in clientland