{"id":194,"date":"2015-01-25T18:54:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T23:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2015-01-25T18:54:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T23:54:31","slug":"gestalt-laws-of-grouping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/gestalt-laws-of-grouping\/","title":{"rendered":"Gestalt Laws of Grouping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Word: \u00a0<\/strong>Gestalt laws of grouping<\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition:\u00a0<\/strong>A principle taken from psychology \u00a0to understand how people naturally observe and perceive object groupings. Gestalt psychologists believe that humans are predisposed into making sense of groupings in logical ways. The principles include perceived patterns like \u00a0proximity, similarity, closure, continuity, and common fate.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reference<\/b><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0Gestalt is a German word roughly meaning \"shape\", \"form\", \"essence\", or \"whole\". Gestalt thinking\u00a0gives people a lot of credit and\u00a0theorizes that the human mind seeks to find structure\u00a0and order\u00a0in the world around it.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the image below. What shape(s) do you see? Did you say, circles and a triangle? Why did you say that when there is obviously not really a triangle or a full circle present in the image? That, ladies and gentleman, is your mind working to make sense of an unknown\u00a0grouping by referencing the known and understood. For further reference, the image is utilizing the principle of \"closure\".<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-195 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gestaltExample-300x231.png\" alt=\"gestaltExample\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gestaltExample-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gestaltExample.png 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts\/Questions:\u00a0<\/strong>Understanding how people perceive and react to groupings of objects helps designers create layouts that are easily interpreted from user to user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word: \u00a0Gestalt laws of grouping Definition:\u00a0A principle taken from psychology \u00a0to understand how people naturally observe and perceive object groupings. Gestalt psychologists believe that humans are predisposed into making sense of groupings in logical ways. The principles include perceived patterns like \u00a0proximity, similarity, closure, continuity, and common fate. Reference:\u00a0Gestalt is a German word roughly meaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[56,57,34,8,9],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","category-terms","tag-gestalt","tag-gestalt-law-of-grouping","tag-psychology","tag-user-experience","tag-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}