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Gestalt Playground

Change the rules. See how your perception changes.

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Foundational

Proximity

About this principle

Principle

What you’re seeing

Perceived relationship

The UX takeaway

Try it in an interface

Closing thought

Good UX is often about what people perceive before they consciously think about it.

Gestalt principles are not rules to follow blindly. They are tools for understanding perception. Later principles and extensions help explain grouping and attention in denser interfaces.

Sources / Further reading

  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Gestalt psychology (opens in new window)
  • Palmer & Rock on common region and uniform connectedness (opens in new window)
  • Nielsen Norman Group on Gestalt principles for UI (opens in new window)
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