Just look at that graphic and compare it to the text below it. The device you hold in your hands may well have such a high pixel density that the individual pixels, for all practical purposes, are indistinguishable to the human eye.īut your mobile browsing experience hasn’t been all crisp sunshine and high-def roses, has it? Every once in a while, as you’re cruising around someone’s supposedly mobile-friendly website, you find yourself greeted with an image - maybe a display ad or some other graphical asset - that makes you stop and go “Whoa! Why is that so *fuzzy*?”Įxamples of this aren’t hard to come by here’s a recent Facebook ad I was served, as viewed on my MacBook’s Retina display (enlarged) : This may sound like unnecessary bragging (especially after that whole “I don’t need glasses, nyah nyah” anecdote), but here’s the thing: If you have a smartphone that was manufactured within the last few years, chances are you’re already having very similar experiences. Suddenly, I didn’t have to be constantly aware of pixels! Text was just… text! Shapes were just… wait for it… shapes! And this was especially true from a design standpoint I tend to work primarily in vector formats these days, and being able to temporarily disregard pixels up until the final export stages has been magnificent.
With all that in mind, I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to classify the first time I opened up this machine and started working as a revelatory experience. But it does mean that for half of my day, five days a week, my visual input has a minimum resolution. The majority of you reading this are probably in the same boat.
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Small price to pay for not needing glasses, I know, but still something that I may never get to experience.Īt least that’s what I thought…until I upgraded to a MacBook Pro with a Retina display.įor the sake of context: I spend close to half of my weekday waking hours staring at a computer screen. I imagine it as a moment of unprecedented wonder, a single instant wherein you become immediately aware of everything that you’ve been missing out on and the world seems like a joyous new place just waiting to be rediscovered. While I am of course grateful to have somehow dodged the world’s most common handicap, part of me has always been a little envious of this one experience. These stories will usually have a lot of similarities: Invariably, there’ll be some mention of looking up at a tree and being able to see the veins in the leaves for the first time. Everyone’s life is an assortment of gives and takes), I’ve always been fascinated by the stories people tell about putting on their first pair of glasses for the first time.
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As someone who’s never had vision problems (Don’t go getting too jealous of me - I also can’t grow a full beard.
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