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Design principle sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Design principle. Discover the frameworks, principles, and tips I've sketched to make Design principle topics easy to understand and share.

Gestalt principles of visual perception showing proximity, similarity, continuity, closure, figure and ground, symmetry and order, and common fate.

Gestalt principles

Forcing functions in design - 2 examples: a hotel room with the lights controlled by key card and a lawnmower that needs both hands to turn it on

Forcing function — design

Compose with the rule of thirds

The one-hoss shay

Mapping illustration: Don Norman's famous example of the controls for a stovetop

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