Gestalt Makes Visual Hierarchy Feel Obvious
Use proximity, similarity, and common region to make a basic screen scan correctly.
People read relationships before they read labels. Gestalt Makes Visual Hierarchy Feel Obvious matters because Figma work is rarely a private sketch; it becomes a shared contract between product, design, engineering, and QA. Gestalt Principles of Grouping gives you a way to make that contract explicit instead of relying on memory or visual taste. The practical mechanism is simple: encode intent in the object model, not just in the pixels. When spacing, naming, resizing, states, and hierarchy are represented in Figma's structure, a teammate can change copy, viewport, or state without rebuilding the design from scratch. The professional move is…
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