Question

Describe a specific example of one of the Gestalt principles on your smartphone homepage. Be sure to state your smartphone platform (use the iOS platform). Including a screenshot is optional.

Answer 1

One of the gestalt principle is of Proximity.

The proximity principle has to do with the distance between two objects. It demonstrates how display affects our perception of how things are related to one another. Objects close to each other seem like they’re part of a group. Objects far away from each other don’t seem to have a relationship.
This has obvious applications in UI and UX design. When you group related controls together, it helps users figure out how they interact with each other. That’s why designers often choose to place similar items in a box or separate dissimilar items with a line. One example that comes to mind has to do with button groups like Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for Watch OS share. Their recommendation is to align similar items on the same horizontal or vertical line.

The other of gestalt principle is of Continuity

Our visual perception system is designed to resolve ambiguity and to fill in missing data to create whole objects. We are hard-wired to favor continuous forms rather than disconnected segments. To achieve this, our brains will fill in missing information if needed. Enter the principle of continuity.

In the following example, we understand the user interface continues below the so-called “fold” of the page. That is because we know that if we scroll the remainder of the screen will come into view. In tvOS, Apple purposefully places elements partially off-screen, taking advantage of the continuity principle to allude to offscreen elements.