{"id":802,"date":"2013-10-09T22:39:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T22:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/?p=802"},"modified":"2013-10-09T22:39:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T22:39:22","slug":"blog-assignment-gestalt-principles-in-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Blog Assignment: Gestalt Principles in Web Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gestalt\u00a0is a psychology term describing\u00a0how people tend to organize visual elements into\u00a0groups or &#8220;unified wholes&#8221; based on certain principles.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the gestalt principles include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>figure and ground:<\/strong>\u00a0establish significant differences between the object and its background, making the object stand out from its surroundings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>proximity and alignment:<\/strong>\u00a0use the same font, color, or alignment to create unity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>continuation:<\/strong>\u00a0elements were positioned on a line or a curve to indicate continuation or connectedness.<\/li>\n<li><strong>visual hierarchy:<\/strong>\u00a0use size, shape or color variation to tell viewers which part are important, and which part are supplemental.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week for the blog, you need to choose a website and talk about how the designer of that website applied those gestalt principles.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about gestalt principles and web design, read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andyrutledge.com\/gestalt-principles-2-similarity.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gestalt\u00a0is a psychology term describing\u00a0how people tend to organize visual elements into\u00a0groups or &#8220;unified wholes&#8221; based on certain principles. Some of the gestalt principles include: figure and ground:\u00a0establish significant differences between the object and its background, making the object stand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/?p=802\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}