Closure: Gestalt Principle for User Interface Design

Summary: People often fill in the gaps between visual elements, using closure to perceive them as a whole instead of being separate UI items.

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Sara Paul is an Experience Specialist with Nielsen Norman Group. She applies UX methodologies to enterprise product development and conducts international user research.

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