Gestalt Principles & Fitts’s Law

What ways might you consider Gestalt principles and Fitts’ Law the next time you sit down and design an interactive piece of software?

• Gestalt Principles and Fitts’s Law
  by John Liu
  February 21, 2024
  When it comes to designing interactive software as a college student, incorporating Gestalt Principles and Fitts’s Law becomes crucial. Embracing Gestalt Principles involves ensuring visual elements adhere to principles like similarity, making related elements look alike. I’d also focus on principles like brightness, contrast, and color to highlight essential information, guiding users towards key content.… Read more: Gestalt Principles and Fitts’s Law
• Gestalt Principles and Fitts’s Law
  by Dave Zheng
  February 14, 2024
  Firstly, regarding Gestalt psychology, this principle explains how people use their innate visual perception to organize and interpret information. There are five laws. Applying these five laws to design can guide users during their interaction, and by leveraging activities that occur unconsciously in the human brain, it can enhance users’ understanding of interaction and interfaces.… Read more: Gestalt Principles and Fitts’s Law
• Applying Gestalt principles and Fitt’s Law in IXD/ UX Design
  by Janette Olmiala
  February 13, 2024
  Applying the Law of Proximity and the Law of Similarity to group-related controls helps users understand the relationships between different elements on an interface. For example, the top buttons on the menu should share similarities in color, shape, and size to indicate that they all belong to the primary navigation bar of a website. Or… Read more: Applying Gestalt principles and Fitt’s Law in IXD/ UX Design
• Gestalt Principles and Fitt’s Law in Interactive Software
  by Jiayi (Nicole) Xie
  February 13, 2024
  Gestalt principles, originating from psychology, explain how we perceive visual elements as unified wholes rather than just a collection of separate parts. These principles can be embedded in software design to create a more coherent and intuitive user interface. Elements that look similar are perceived as part of a group. In Sketchpad, similar functions can… Read more: Gestalt Principles and Fitt’s Law in Interactive Software
• Gestalt principles and Fitt’s Law for User Interface Design
  by Lynn Lin
  February 13, 2024
  Through my study of the Gestalt principles and Fitt’s Law, I have learned that incorporating these principles into design can create visually coherent, intuitive, and efficient interfaces for the user, thus promoting a positive and effective user experience. The next time I design an interactive interface, I will first think about grouping, similarity, closure, continuity,… Read more: Gestalt principles and Fitt’s Law for User Interface Design
• Gestalt Principles & Fitts’s Law in Modern UX design
  by Hannah He
  February 11, 2024
  Learning about Gestalt principles has made me realize more about becoming a better logical thinker regarding graphic design. The Law of Proximity stresses grouping objects to help users understand the content. It so does The Law of Similarity, which groups similar colors, ideas, and shapes together to make the human eye easier to comprehend. The… Read more: Gestalt Principles & Fitts’s Law in Modern UX design