Five killer ways to use buttons on your site

Gestalt is the German word that can be defined as the ‘essence or shape of an entity’s complete form’. We use the term in graphic design to refer to the idea of how a person will recognise and react to an element of something we’ve designed.

There are several guiding principles applied against this concept; Similarity, Continuation, Closure, Proximity, Figure and Ground. We can use these to our advantage when designing web page elements – specifically with the design of buttons.

What’s in a shape?

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