Web Design with Figma: Building Striking Compositions
Gestalt Principles Used in Design
A course by Pablo Stanley , Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Gestalt Principles Used in Design
Overview
“We will see how the Gestalt principles inform the way we interpret visual information.”
In this video lesson Pablo Stanley addresses the topic: Gestalt Principles Used in Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Web Design with Figma: Building Striking Compositions. Learn the principles behind creating strong digital compositions that take your designs to the next level.
Partial transcription of the video
“So in the last lesson, we learned about basic composition principles. In this lesson, we'll learn about Gestalt principles and how to use it on your design. Let's do it. Gestalt Principles Help us understand how our brains interpret visual information, Simplify it. And reduce complexity. Our minds are trying to be efficient, so we're always looking for the simplest possible way to understand a layout. We take elements of a design and subconsciously arrange them as a whole. before examining the single parts. Like here. There are a bunch of random shapes, but our brain first saw three groups ...”
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Course summary for: Web Design with Figma: Building Striking Compositions
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Category
Web & App Design -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Figma -
Areas
App Design, Digital Design, Digital Product Design, Mobile Design, UX / UI, Web Design

Pablo Stanley
A course by Pablo Stanley
Pablo Stanley is a Mexican designer, illustrator, and co-founder of the creative design tool Blush. He studied design and visual communications at university before starting his career as a creative director.
Since then, he’s worked as a lead at Invision, a staff designer at Lyft, and co-founded both Carbon Health and Blush. He hosts workshops around the world and has a podcast about design and technology. Alongside writing and illustrating the comic The Design Team, he also shares his work with over 45K followers on Instagram.
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