Comments on: Gestalt Laws, Charts and Tables: The way your brain wants them to be ../../../../2008/05/gestalt-laws-charts-and-tables-the-way-your-brain-wants-them-to-be/ XLCubed Blog Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.21 By: K McKibben ../../../../2008/05/gestalt-laws-charts-and-tables-the-way-your-brain-wants-them-to-be/#comment-10 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:46:51 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/gestalt-laws-charts-and-tables-the-way-your-brain-wants-them-to-be/#comment-10 Hello, I’m just trying to decide if I should sort my list of 50 states horizontally across my page or vertically. For example my designer has 8 columns across the bottom of the page and then state names going down those columns. Should it read:
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California … Delaware
Florida Georgia …………………………Kansas

or

Alabama California Delaware Florida
Alaska …….
Arizona …..
Arkansas …..

I’d be interested in your answer. Thanks … Kathryn

]]> By: Gestalt continuity | Mummabearcards ../../../../2008/05/gestalt-laws-charts-and-tables-the-way-your-brain-wants-them-to-be/#comment-9 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:39:38 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/gestalt-laws-charts-and-tables-the-way-your-brain-wants-them-to-be/#comment-9 […] Gestalt Laws, Charts and Tables: The way your brain wants them to …Gestalt Psychology, founded by Max Wertheimer, was to some extent a rebellion against the …. Another law is the law of continuity. When we can see a line, … […]

]]> By: The Dashbord Squint Test | More Information per Pixel ../../../../2008/05/gestalt-laws-charts-and-tables-the-way-your-brain-wants-them-to-be/#comment-8 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:21:24 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/gestalt-laws-charts-and-tables-the-way-your-brain-wants-them-to-be/#comment-8 […] my dashboard elements contrast well against the background?  Do they group well, obeying the Gestalt Laws of Proximity, Similarity, Continuity and Closure? Do the tables and charts align well in a visual […]

]]> By: Applied Gestalt Laws: Table Alignment | More Information per Pixel ../../../../2008/05/gestalt-laws-charts-and-tables-the-way-your-brain-wants-them-to-be/#comment-7 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:22:24 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/gestalt-laws-charts-and-tables-the-way-your-brain-wants-them-to-be/#comment-7 […] are based on combinations of tabular layouts, so to continue my series about visual design (see my previous post) I will focus on the most common and simple problem to fix: The fundamentals of how to align […]

]]> By: Rounded Coners in Excel Tables | More Information per Pixel ../../../../2008/05/gestalt-laws-charts-and-tables-the-way-your-brain-wants-them-to-be/#comment-6 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:05:07 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/gestalt-laws-charts-and-tables-the-way-your-brain-wants-them-to-be/#comment-6 […] effect can be explained with by the Gestalt Law of Continuity. Gestalt is a set of rules based on research into perception psychology, and a very powerful tool […]

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