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Dev tools · March 30, 2020

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Geometric Composition in JavaScript (free book about design and code)

Programming Design Systems is a free digital book that teaches a practical introduction to the new foundations of graphic design.

Geometric Composition in JavaScript (free book about design and code) launched on March 30, 2020 with 9 votes, #1,153 of 4,417 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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“By making visual categories explicit, by extracting underlying principles, and by showing structural relations at work, [the aim is] not to replace spontaneous intuition but to sharpen it, to shore it up, and to make its elements communicable.” In the late 1800’s, psychologists in Germany performed a range of studies that would later form the foundation of Gestalt psychology. This new branch of psychology stated that humans, because we live in a complex world, seek to derive fast, simplified conclusions about what we see. The first thing most people see when presented with the drawing below is not 51 circles, but rather the groups these circles form based on their…from programmingdesignsystems.com

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