#88 - This Psychology Principle Will Make Your Dashboards More Powerful

The gestalt principles look at human perception and are based on the human tendency to intuit patterns when processing information, including visual information.

One of the core tenets of the principle, which translated from German means ‘unified whole’, is that people tend to group similar elements, recognise patterns, and simplify complex images.

So, what does this have to do with dashboard design?

In short, everything, given that the gestalt principles define how humans perceive the world. Design, in this case, is just another complex set of visual information that people have to make sense of. 

When it comes to dashboards specifically, the gestalt principles or gestaltism can help in a myriad of ways. To find out exactly how though, we’ll go through some of the principles in this podcast and outline how you can apply them when building your dashboards.

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