Michael Salamon

My IXD09 Presentation

Where Should You Put the “Submit” Button? Explore how Gestalt laws inform interface design.
You can download this presentation to sound smart in front of your boss and that one cutie from accounting. Just send me an email and let me know how it goes.

Keynote 09: ixd09_gestalt.key (archived: 15.28 MB)

Keynote 08: ixd09_gestalt_08key.key (archived: 18.75 MB)
PowerPoint: ixd09_gestalt.ppt (archived: 1.18 MB)

PDF: ixd09_gestalt.pdf (5.03 MB)

All of my examples were stolen from the following fantastic books:
Information Dashboard Design
The Effective Visual Communication of Data
Stephen Few
ISBN: 0 596 10016 7

To the Resuce of Art: Twenty-six Essays
Rudolf Arnheim
ISBN: 0 520 07458 0

Perception and Imaging
Richard Zakia
ISBN: 0 240 80201 2

A Source Book of Gestalt Psychology
Summaries of thirty-four articles and one book published in Germany by the leading exponents between 1915 and 1929 of Gestalt Psychology
Willis D. Ellis
ISBN: 0 7100 6115 3

Principals of Gestalt Psychology
K. Koffka

Gestalt Psychology
The definitive statement of the Gestalt Theory
Dr. Wolfgang Kohler

Andy Rutledge has a great set of articles covering Gestalt Principles:
www.andyrutledge.com

And don’t forget the wiki, that place is a gold mine of information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology

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About Michael Salamon: With nearly 20 years experience, Michael’s work spans print, Web, mobile, interactive, motion, illustration and animation. With a thorough history in the printing industry, Michael made the move to the Web with the rest of the chunky black glasses crowd and helped define interaction methods still used today. His cients have ranged from huge multi-national big-shot companies to modest one-person shops including: Quark, Intuit, Cendant (CheapTickets), JCPenney’s, Home Depot, Cabela’s. Dish Network, Staz, Ci-Ci’s Pizza and Northrop Grumman.

About EffectiveUI: EffectiveUI is an award-winning and recognized leader in the design and development of custom rich Internet, desktop and mobile applications, enabling companies to maximize their business results while offering exceptional interactive experiences. Leveraging emerging technologies and expertise in user experience, strategy, design and development, EffectiveUI helps today’s most respected brands deepen customer engagements by creating more compelling, dynamic and useful customer interactions. EffectiveUI has developed groundbreaking applications for organizations across multiple industries, including eBay, GE Health, NBC Universal, Viacom, Discovery Channel, Dow Jones, Adobe and Microsoft. For more information and examples of EffectiveUI’s work, please visit www.effectiveui.com.