Chapter 5
Layout Design Aspects
End of Chapter Review Answers
1. What is a layout?
2. How should the audience’s expected interest level affect the form of your designs?
3. Name and explain each Law of Gestalt.
The Law of Equilibrium states that the human brain prefers simplicity, stability and cohesion. This means that
humans prefer to understand the things that we see.
4. What is visual hierarchy? How should the visual hierarchy of design elements influence your layout?
5. Explain the concept of reading gravity.
6. Describe a variety of ways you could emphasize an object or text in a layout.