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Practitioners-Guide-User-Experience-Design

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pieces of images peeking out from the edge of the screen, which are harnessing the laws of<br />

human visual perception.<br />

The two examples above play on the law of symmetry, discovered in Gestalt<br />

psychology, which says that humans have an innate ability to perceive that a whole object<br />

exists when only part of it is visible and to perceive that object’s center of gravity. When<br />

some text or part of a graphic is cut off or an element trails past the visual boundaries of<br />

the page, we are naturally inclined to play with the screen to find the rest. We’re just in the<br />

early phase of crafting the NUI language, and I strongly encourage you to learn all you<br />

can about it in order to become a good contributor to the product’s visual design.

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