"Welcome, my dear reader! Perhaps, just like me, you've searched the internet for different sources about the Gestalt principles and found that there are many, each slightly different from the others. That's why I decided to bring several of them together, analyze and group them, and highlight the fundamental ones, the core laws that we, as designers, can confidently rely on when creating our work."
"let's start from the beginning, where these principles came from, and why they are, in fact, more of a science than just an observation. The History of Gestalt Principles Gestalt psychology emerged in Germany at the very beginning of the 20th century as a response to the then-dominant, and in fact the first, school of psychology - Structuralism. Structuralism viewed consciousness as something that could be deconstructed into individual elements: sensations, images, and feelings; to understand how the mind is built from its smallest parts."
Gestalt principles act as an invisible grammar for interfaces, supplying rules that make visual language readable and coherent. Gestalt psychology arose in early 20th-century Germany as a reaction to structuralism, which decomposed consciousness into sensations and images. Gestalt thinkers emphasized holistic perception, asserting that consciousness emerges from organized patterns rather than the mere sum of parts. Founders Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka investigated how the brain perceives images as unified, structured wholes. Designers can apply core Gestalt laws to group, organize, and present visual elements reliably and scientifically.
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