May 2021
Beginner
295 pages
8h 35m
English
Content preview from 97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 28. Follow These Principles of Gestalt for Better UX Designs
Erin Malone
In 1910 a group of Austrian and German psychologists developed the principles of Gestalt psychology. Gestalt is defined by the Oxford Dictionary of English (Oxford University Press) as “an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.” These collected principles (or laws) codify our innate visual perceptions and have long been taught to graphic designers and visual communicators as part of a basic design education. UX designers can leverage this perceptual understanding to create more meaningful, intuitive, and useful experiences by incorporating these simple visual principles into our designs.
The overarching Law of Simplicity states that people inherently group things together in their mind to simplify them and make meaning through that grouping. Our brains perceive patterns and complete shapes even when there is significant missing information. The following laws go into more granular detail about different ways that every UX designer can apply these principles to make designs more intuitive for users:
-
The Law of Proximity states that objects close to each other are easily grouped in the mind’s eye. In UX design, if we group buttons and controls together, it’s implied that these controls are related. For example, we can use this principle in navigation groupings and footer ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.