Group Before You Decorate
Use proximity and common region to organize a messy visual workspace into meaningful clusters.
Layout is meaning. Before a person reads your labels, they read spatial relationships: what is close, what is separate, what sits inside a shared boundary, and what visually matches. Proximity does the first pass Put related notes close together and leave real space between groups. The empty space is not wasted. It tells the viewer where one idea ends and another begins. On a board, this is often clearer than a dozen labels. Common region makes the cluster official Once a group is stable, use a light container, lane, or background tint to show that the items belong together. The…
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