Gestalt Principles: Design Intuitive Interfaces

Course Curriculum

The Origins of Gestalt Psychology (4 Lessons, 23 min)

• Course Overview & Downloads
• Where Did “Gestalt” Principles Come From?
• What Was the Early Evidence for Gestalt?
• Gestalt’s Impact On UX Research

The Foundations of Visual Perception (6 Lessons, 89 min)

• The Law of Prägnanz: Keeping Things Simple
• The 7 Attributes of Prägnanz
• Prägnanz Steps: Your Perceptual Benchmarks
• Uniform Connectedness: How Many Objects Am I Looking At?
• Figure-Ground: Which Objects Should I Focus On?
• Where Are We Going Next?

Attribute-Based Principles (8 Lessons, 114 min)

• Proximity: What Is It?
• Proximity: How Do I Use It?
• Similarity: What Is It?
• Similarity: How Do I Use It?
• Symmetry: What Is It?
• Symmetry: How Do I Use It?
• Parallelism: What Is It?
• Parallelism: How Do I Use It?

Change-Based Principles (4 Lessons, 54 min)

• Synchrony: What Is It?
• Synchrony: How Do I Use It?
• Common Fate: What Is It?
• Common Fate: How Do I Use It?

Contour-Based Principles (8 Lessons, 97 min)

• Continuation: What Is It?
• Continuation: How Do I Use It?
• Common Region: What Is It?
• Common Region: How Do I Use It?
• Element Connectedness: What Is It?
• Element Connectedness: How Do I Use It?
• Closure: What Is It?
• Closure: How Do I Use It?

Applying Gestalt in Your Work (4 Lessons, 33 min)

• Recognizing Gestalt in Research Data
• Gestalt for Blind Users
• Gestalt Principles in Computer Vision Tasks
• Final Thoughts