Hands-On UX Design for Developers

The Closure law

Based on the principle of good continuation, there will be a tendency to group simple elements or objects, independent of continuity or similarity. This will give results based on the effect of filling the missing piece with a different shape or color to make it a whole; we can even play with positive or negative space to give a complete meaning to the objects that we are trying to display.

The closure law can be easily seen in the first diagram in the following graphic, but it's a little complicated to understand how it works. The second diagram can be read as an overlap of two different objects, in our case, two rectangles; the same thing can be read with three objects, as shown in example number 3. In example 3, we can ...