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Design Thoughts

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Universidad del Quindío, Armenia

About Design Thoughts

Design Thoughts is a web page that recolets valuable information about design principles, strategies and good practices in design as a concept.

Data Visualization

It starts as a source of information for Data Visualization course.

Principles

Will show you some design principles to improve your designs, based on how the human brain works.

Examples

In this section you will see some examples of good designs.

Storytelling

It shows you different way for you to tell stories across data.

Principles

Clousure The human brain prefers complete shapes, so wet try automatically fill in gaps between elements to complete an image

Reference Gestalt Principles

Proximity We try to group common things in a common region.

Reference Gestalt Principles

Continuation The human eye will follow linesas a whole regardless of how the lines are drawn.

Reference Gestalt Principles

Figure/Ground The brain will be able to create images around another ones.

Reference Gestalt Principles

Similarity The similar objects tend to be together.

Reference Gestalt Principles

Symmetry The symmetrics objects tend to be classify as the same group.

Reference Gestalt Principles

Examples

Poster from the design world Using some Gestalt laws allow to have a simple great design.

Reference Posters from the design world

Poster from the design world Using some Gestalt laws allow to have a simple great design.

Reference Posters from the design world

Storytelling