Comments on: Design Basics: Proximity To Know What Belongs With What

By: Immysl

Immysl — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:08:47 +0000

Same pinch. Web design looks so much better than Java development. Seriously.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:13:05 +0000

I'm glad you liked the post. You may want to grab the book, The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams. It covers the basic ideas of contrast, repetition, alignment, a proximity in much greater detail, with much better examples. It's a great book and I highly recommend it. Guarantee you'll learn a lot about design.

By: Belgrave

Belgrave — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:24:00 +0000

As a Java developer trying to switch to design this article has really opened my eyes. Ever site I look at, I now see with a new eye. Thank you

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:48:46 +0000

Thanks Sanjay. I started out on the development side as well and have been teaching myself design principles for awhile and thought others could benefit from that teaching as well.

I think many of us designing and developing websites began from the development side and can use some design theory.

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:03:50 +0000

Being from a development background trying to plunge into design has made simple with this article .Brilliant ..

By: Visual Hierarchy: How Well Does Your Design Communicate? | Van SEO Design

Visual Hierarchy: How Well Does Your Design Communicate? | Van SEO Design — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:31:21 +0000

[...] Proximity groups elements within a hierarchy and creates new sub hierarchies. Your home page has three offers for different products or services. Each might have a heading, a descriptive paragraph, an image, and a link to more information. The specific design elements would be on a different hierarchical level, but each offer (by containing the same 4 elements) connects the offers as being at the same hierarchical level. [...]