
{"id":815,"date":"2013-10-10T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/?p=815"},"modified":"2013-10-10T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:22:00","slug":"gestalt-principle-kitkat-4-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Gestalt Principle: KitKat 4.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.kitkat.com\/#\/home<\/p>\n<p>The website I chose to use was the website for the new KitKat 4.4. The website is designed almost more like an info-graph because instead of navigating you scroll down the page to get the information about the new product. It&#8217;s a very creative website because it compares the new candy to technology, for example its &#8220;mobility&#8221; is represented with the sticks acting as descending bars that resemble cell phone service.<\/p>\n<p>To apply the Gestalt Principle to this website we can look it its <strong>figure and ground<\/strong>. For example on the below &#8220;page&#8221; of the website the red words and piece of chocolate, as well as the navigation scroll bar all stand out against the white background.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-09-at-10.04.09-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-817\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-09 at 10.04.09 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-09-at-10.04.09-PM-300x148.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-09-at-10.04.09-PM-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-09-at-10.04.09-PM-1024x505.png 1024w, https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-09-at-10.04.09-PM-500x246.png 500w, https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-09-at-10.04.09-PM.png 1361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the below picture stitch of the website, the website is uniform with a common font and color scheme throughout. The<strong> proximity and alignment<\/strong> is on point.<a href=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/gra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-816\" alt=\"gra\" src=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/gra-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/gra-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/gra-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/gra.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The websites entire design is based on <strong>continuation<\/strong> considering it is one page and flows down to show all the specs of the new candy.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> visual hierarchy<\/strong> can be represented by the following page. The header of this &#8220;page&#8221; is written in a larger font and in red to signify that it&#8217;s important. There is then color variation when the information about the header is written in black.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-09-at-10.20.00-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-818\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-09 at 10.20.00 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-09-at-10.20.00-PM-300x153.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-09-at-10.20.00-PM-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-09-at-10.20.00-PM-1024x525.png 1024w, https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-09-at-10.20.00-PM-500x256.png 500w, https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-09-at-10.20.00-PM.png 1371w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.kitkat.com\/#\/home The website I chose to use was the website for the new KitKat 4.4. The website is designed almost more like an info-graph because instead of navigating you scroll down the page to get the information about the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/?p=815\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}