Spent six months walking around like a question mark for nothing.

Once I spent three hours making a coffee cup logo blue instead of red because I had the wrong monitor calibration.

The thing nobody mentions is that sometimes the client is right about their own audience in ways we can't predict. I had a music site where I made everything super subtle and clean, and the label came back saying it felt "dead" and their fans actually wanted the chaotic flashy stuff. Turns out their demographic was teenagers who literally got bored if they weren't visually overwhelmed. So now I ask about the actual users first, not just the client's taste. Saved me from stripping down a gaming site last month that genuinely needed to feel loud and obnoxious to match the community vibe.

Yeah, @paigewood that voice memo idea is actually brilliant because it gets around the whole "but my edition has different spacing" issue that always comes up. Something I don't see anyone mentioning though is how this changes things for people who read on audio or ebook. I had a buddy who listened to Project Hail Mary on audiobook and he had no clue what page 237 even meant because his version was just hours of audio. We started doing what you did with chapter flags but we also would just say "read until after the big twist in chapter 12" so the audiobook people could just note the chapter title. It saved a lot of headaches and nobody felt left out because they couldn't find the right spot.

Man, @reese551 nailed it. I've seen people try to build furniture or hang shelves with nothing but a "looks about right" approach. Then they act shocked when the whole thing sags or crashes down an hour later. A level and a tape measure aren't that hard to grab.