{"id":711,"date":"2013-10-09T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/?p=711"},"modified":"2013-10-09T22:42:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T22:42:46","slug":"blog-assignment-gestalt-principles-in-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/2013\/10\/09\/blog-assignment-gestalt-principles-in-web-design\/","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> establish significant differences between the object and its background, making the object stand out from its surroundings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>proximity and alignment:<\/strong> use the same font, color, or alignment to create unity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>continuation:<\/strong> elements were positioned on a line or a curve to indicate continuation or connectedness.<\/li>\n<li><strong>visual hierarchy:<\/strong> use 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. Deadline is Friday at midnight.<\/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<p>In addition to this blogging assignment, you need to upload a jpeg of your poster and comment on two other persons&#8217; poster posts. Deadline is Sunday 11:49 PM.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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: establish significant differences between the object and its background, making the object &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/2013\/10\/09\/blog-assignment-gestalt-principles-in-web-design\/\">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":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gra217.expressions.syr.edu\/s5g2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}