A user told me my app's 'save' button was invisible on their phone in Phoenix

They sent a screenshot showing the button was the same gray as the background on their Samsung Galaxy screen. I had only tested on my iPhone in daylight. I changed the button color to a solid blue with a 2 pixel border, and error reports from Arizona dropped by half in a month. Anyone else get caught by assuming their screen looks like everyone else's?

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dixon.nathan14d ago

Testing on a bunch of different screens sounds like a huge waste of time and money. Most people have pretty normal phones now, so the differences are tiny. You can't chase every single weird display setting out there, that's a losing game. Just design for the most common setup and move on. Fixing it for one person in Arizona is a distraction from building new stuff.

logan_schmidt14d ago

Yeah, screen differences are a real trap... had a similar thing happen with font weights looking totally bold on some monitors but thin on others. Always gotta check on a few different devices now.