This Game Will Help You to Improve Your UI Skills

Designing an excellent interface is an achievable goal, you just have to train your eye to observe detail

Aside from their technique and expert knowledge, a great UI designer stands out for their attention to detail. A bad kerning, a misaligned object, or an inadequate icon has no chance of slipping by them.

Training your eye to appreciate the details and differences between a perfect design and a flawed one takes years of experience and observation. Fortunately, there are many fun ways to improve, such as playing Can’t Unsee–a web game for improving your UI skills.

A reinvented classic

The user is presented with two images, seemingly identical, and has to identify the differences and select the better design based on its appearance. The game’s name, “Can’t Unsee,” couldn’t be more fitting. Once you’ve discovered the error, your eyes will be drawn to it.

There’s a great range of images displaying interfaces that we’ve all used millions of times: a phone screen during a video call, a messaging app, or a web ad. The difficulty level of the game increases as the user advances.

And while the differences between the images you see at the beginning of the game seem obvious and easy to spot at a glance, as your score increases, the details are harder to catch, despite them being crucial.

There are no winners or losers in this game, or better said, there's always a winner: you. By training your critical eye, you’re on the road to becoming a great UI designer.

Can't Unsee

English version by @eloiseedgington.

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