TermCraft conventionFoundational
Gestalt Principles
The rules your eye follows automatically when grouping things.
Definition
A set of perceptual principles describing how the visual system groups elements into wholes.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
In plain language
The rules your eye follows automatically when grouping things.
Example
Two elements placed close together read as related, before anything is read.
Continue from here
Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Deeper reading
The full entry behind this definition.
- Law of PrägnanzLaw
- Common RegionUI foundation
- ProximityUI foundation
- SimilarityUI foundation
Nearby in the Atlas
Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.