Until today, my ideas for design were unorganized or at least missing a standard of some sort.  Andy Rudtledge’s site gave me some great guidance I’ll use from here on out.  Here are some general definitions of Gestalt’s Principles of Perception that I got from Andy Rudtledge’s site. 

Figure Ground Relationship
Elements are perceived as either figures (distinct elements of focus) or ground (the background or landscape on which the figures rest).

Law of Prägnanz
Humans tend to interpret ambiguous or complex images as simple and complete.

Uniform Connectedness
Elements that share uniform visual characteristics are perceived as being more related than elements with disparate visual characteristics.

Good Continuation
Elements arranged on a line or curve are perceived to be more related than elements not on the line or curve.

Closure
When looking at a complex arrangement of individual elements, humans tend to first look for a single, recognizable pattern.

Common Fate
Humans tend to perceive elements moving in the same direction as being more related than elements that are stationary or that move in different directions.

Proximity
Things that are close to one another are perceived to be more related than things that are spaced farther apart.

Similarity
Things that are similar are perceived to be more related than things that are dissimilar.

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