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Designing for Human Behaviour
Good interfaces are not decorated. They are arranged around how people actually see, group and decide.
People do not read an interface. They scan it, group what looks related and act on the first thing that seems to answer their question. Design that ignores this asks visitors to work harder, and most of them simply leave.
01Gestalt is a toolkit, not a theory
Proximity, similarity and continuity describe how the eye organises a page before the mind gets involved. Place a price next to its call to action and they read as one decision. Give every interactive element the same shape and people learn the pattern once. Draw a clear line through a layout and the eye follows it to the end.
02Lower the load, raise the rate
Every extra choice, label or colour adds cognitive load. Our two goals for any touchpoint are linked: lower that load, and conversion rises. In practice that means fewer competing actions per screen, consistent components and copy that answers the question the visitor brought with them.
Behaviour-led design is also measurable. When a layout is built on a hypothesis about attention, you can test it. That is what turns design from a matter of taste into a decision you can defend.
