UI Designer : please make the border under the title a lighter shade of grey

Me : How much lighter?

UI Designer : I'm not sure... I'll know it when I see it. Just try a few shades out.

Me: *tries a lighter shade* Is this okay?

UI Designer : No! Now it's too light.. Make it juuuust a little darker.

*This goes on for two hours back and forth*

Me : ....... (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

🤓a little more blueish please

And also add a small amount of orange shade 🙃

Can't he do this himself???? Geez

He should have given you the hex code

Good example on when to say no. If they still bug you, escalate to your superior, as I suspect they wouldn't like developer time being wasted on such a triviality.

I always say "look, I'm color blind, give me the color code and I will put it there"

And that is true.. I am...

@azous wow! For me its false but i would definitely use it on appropriate occasions 😂👍

I'm colorlazy.
Dark and light colors are all black or white. I can see the hint of the color. But I prefer to call a dark blue as black or a ice blue as white

Just hit him with a hammer until he's #000000 && #000030

Present them a palette and let them choose one?

Just ask them to test this out themselves using mockups, there's no reason this tiny detail needs to be tested in code.

da heck... isn't that what UI developers are supposed to do? Why are you doing it... Should probably just give them a hexpicker and let them send you the info they need...

@segfault0xff nice.

I experienced this some years ago, except that they s was with everything.
The client was had some degree in web design, yet they failed to deliver accurate corrections.
Client: "Please move this a bit down"
Me: *A bit? I guess that's 5px?*
Me: *Moving element 5px down*
Client: "That's way too little. Further down!"
Me: *moving it additional 10px down*
Client: "That's too much!"
Let me tell you, this project took almost a whole month because of this shit. It was estimated to take two weeks, which could easily have been achieved.

Lesson of the story: if you are a designer by any chance and fails to deliver exact measurements, you're incompetent as a designer.

Dude, there are 254÷3=~84 rgb combinations of light gray to try. That's a waste of your time... Ask if he has a reference image of it, so you can use the colour picking tool 😎

I work with a designer that never chooses a simple grey. Instead of #d1d1d1 it would be #d1d1d2

@azous I have to do the same thing.

Shouldn't the designer chose a color palette and stick with it?

UI Designer: Please make the border under the title a lighter shade of grey.

Me: Fuck off. I've done it the exact colour specified in the style guide. Wanna change it? Then change the style guide appropriately, let me know once the client's signed it off and I'll schedule the work in.

@DeadInside exactly.

Presenting: adobe color wheel!

Are you regularly bothered by designers with no technical skill? Do they usurp your time and energy with minor changes to web page color schemes?!?!

Simply send them this link, with the text “I need the exact hex values” and let them waste THEIR time giving you what you need! Attach in an email to your designer today!

https://color.adobe.com/

Take a few minutes and change nothing. Inform designer you changed it. Probably would have said it was perfect