Gestalt Psychology and Web Design: The Ultimate Guide

Gestalt Psychology and Web Design: The Ultimate Guide
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Interaction Design Foundation
Overview

Learn and work with a global team of designers
Optional physical meet-ups may take place in your city via our Local Groups initiative.
Gain an industry-trusted Course Certificate
Gain Permanent access to course material

Skills you will learn

Who should do this course?

UX designers who want to create outstanding websites that are free from usability flaws
Project managers keen on building user-centered products that stand out from the competition
Software engineers interested in augmenting their development skills with a firm grounding in usability
Entrepreneurs looking to ship products that are free from usability flaws and thus succeed
Newcomers to design who are considering making a switch to UX design

What are the course deliverables?

How and why Gestalt principles can make or break your designs
The origins of Gestalt thinking and the principles of perceptual organization
How to use Gestalt laws in web and product design
How to take a Gestalt-driven approach to improve a web user??s experience
How to analyze existing product and web designs according to the Gestalt principles of perceptual organization

More about this course

One of the key ingredients to a successful product is the creation of effective, efficient and visually pleasing displays. In order to produce such high-quality displays, whether they are graphical (e.g., websites) or tangible (e.g., remote controls), an understanding of human vision is required, along with the knowledge of visual perception. By observing, researching, and identifying examples of our perceptual abilities, we can design products according to these unifying qualities. In order to spread such skills within the world of interaction design, we have developed ??Gestalt Psychology and Web Design: The Ultimate Guide.??
Within this course, we have compiled and consolidated some of the best resources currently available on the subject of Gestalt psychology and visual perception. To help you appreciate how you can apply Gestalt psychology to web design, we have provided many different examples from existing designs. These draw attention to the exact qualities, quirks, and features of visual perception. Moreover, they discuss how these have been accommodated and, on a number of occasions, exploited so as to support either the user's intentions or those of the designer or client.