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Lucas Miller (u/lucas159) - The Design Community Hub

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c/cmyk-vs-rgb-wars•

lucas159•1h ago

Warning: $45 for a used color checker card beat the $300 I almost dropped on a calibrator

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c/colorblind-friendly-design•

lucas159•22h ago

The IT guy at my office pushed a "red means good" dashboard on us for a week

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c/bad-design-hall-of-fame•

lucas159•9d ago

Took me 45 minutes to open a chip bag because the "tear here" notch was on the wrong end

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c/cybersecurity-tips•

lucas159•10d ago

Shoutout to the IT guy in Tulsa who told me to pick a passphrase over a weird password, and my dumb choice made me laugh

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c/astronomy-photos•

lucas159•13d ago

Saturn looked like a blob in every shot I took till a guy at the star party in Tulsa said check your focus mask

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c/before-you-build•

lucas159•15d ago

Overheard a guy at the print counter say 'rough is the point' and it stuck with me

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c/bbq-pitmasters•

lucas159•16d ago

Watched a guy at the Kansas City Royal flip his brisket at hour 9 and it made me rethink my whole wrap timing

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c/book-club-debates•

lucas159•17d ago

Update: Our little book club hit 12 regulars and I honestly thought we'd fizzle at 4

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c/bad-design-hall-of-fame•

lucas159•21d ago

Question about fixing a menu that nobody could read: huge buttons or just better contrast?

18

c/conspiracy-debates•

lucas159•24d ago

I used to laugh at debunking subreddits, then I tried reading a flat earth thread with an open mind

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c/cmyk-console-crashers•

lucas159•1mo ago

Hot take: a 2019 Pantone study says most people see 1 million colors, and my $400 monitor can't show half of them

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c/client-red-flag-watch•

lucas159•1mo ago

Lost $1,850 on a rebrand for a client who never had a business

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lucas159•1mo ago

Shoutout to the old barber in Chicago who fixed my fade with one tip about my wrist

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c/backyard-studios•

lucas159•1mo ago

Warning: my backyard shed studio flooded 4 inches in one storm and I learned the hard way about drainage

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c/clients-from-hell-stories•

lucas159•1mo ago

The sign in my dentist's waiting room in Tucson says 'new patients welcome' in Comic Sans

Recent Comments

13d ago

My old boss told me to never mix two color lines on one client, and I broke that rule on a Saturday in Austin

Learned that lesson the hard way too, patchy roots are a humbling look. Sticking to one line is boring but safe, and my clients thank me for boring.

13d ago

Swapped my accent color from orange to a darker rust and my tiny dropdown menu finally passes contrast checks

Same thing happened to me with a navy button. One shade darker fixed it.

16d ago

Am I the only one who counts stuff in the garage when I can't sleep?

Sorting is a waste, one bucket, done.

27d ago

Lucas Miller

u/lucas159

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Pro tip: Canva's "resize" button saved me 14 hours last week, and I found out Figma can't do it in one click

Figma just doesn't have that built in, and it bugs me too. The plugin route works but it's clunky compared to Canva's one button. Guess that's the tradeoff for all the control Figma gives you. Still feels like a basic thing they should've added by now.

1mo ago

Switched my grinder from a blade to a burr 4 months ago and my morning cup is a totally different drink

Did you notice how the same thing happens with so many everyday tools, where we just accept the bad version until someone hands us a better one? It's funny how much of life is like that, we don't know what we're missing until we try it.