Tag: Gestalt

What do you know about Gestalt psychology? This is probably something you've never heard of before. And that is why we must challenge the lack of knowledge and fill this long-felt want. Gestalt proximity principle is known to be applied to the perception and form-generating capability of our senses. In other words, it is all about visual recognition of unified wholes instead of just a collection of simple units. And as people often tend to draw some far-fetched analogies between different things, we can see these principles sufficiently exploited in web design. Commonly 6 Gestalt laws show how people tend to organize visual elements. Those are proximity, similarity, continuity, closure, symmetry, and common fate. Today we will start by introducing you to the proximity principle in the con...