This is just an experiment for me, but there are people in the world who use the mode all the time, and there are others with issue differentiating colors and have an experience like this every time they pick up their phone. I’d highly recommend anyone doing interface work look at their designs in this mode at least once or twice to see what it looks like.Īs another example, here's the YouTube navigation:Ĭan you tell me which tab is active (it’s Home, by the way)? Turning on the high contrast mode in the app’s settings helps quite a bit, but this setting is only in the iOS app and not Android, so Twitter is a hard to view mess on my Pixel 2. For example, Twitter has a light blue on white interface by default and it is hard to view when in monochrome. Some apps use a bunch of colors in the same general brightness and saturation, and those apps just had their interfaces become a mess in this mode. This really gave me an appreciation for apps that have high contrast in their interfaces. Other elements were harder to tell if they were on or off. Losing color meant all of my tags in Todoist (my todo app for work) were basically useless, as were my inbox designators in Newton. No, it turns out color plays a big roll in user interfaces beyond just making them playful. That’s not to say it immediately turned my phones into pure productivity machines. I was using my phone to get things done, but I didn’t use it to just mess around. App icons lost much of their appeal, chat bubbles became more lifeless, and everything else just felt more utilitarian. It was like going from a sunny California summer day to a dreary Midwest winter morning 1. It was doing exactly the same things, but it just felt far less engaging without the colorful icons and interfaces. The first thing I noticed was that the phone felt less “fun” overall. Well it’s not great, but that’s kind of the point, right? I didn’t expect there to be much difference in my usage, but I have to admit I felt quite a bit different when looking at my phone after turning on this feature, and the difference was similar on Android and iOS. Note that these may be slightly different depending on the Android model you are using. Scroll way down to Simulate color space.Enable “developer mode” on your phone ( instructions).Open the Settings app and go to General.She tried this simple solution to try and use her phone less, and I thought “what the hell, let’s try it.” Here’s how you do it on iOS and Android: iPhone or iPad
Nellie Bowles got me thinking with this piece in the New York Times about setting your phone into grayscale in order to use it less.
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