The mind of a designer
By: Siddharth Oswal
Tags: Design Patterns, Design, Composition, Gestalt Principles, Design Thinking

Compositions on paper and Figma

These are some of the random designs I’ve made and tried to make some sense out of it and named every composition according to how I perceive every design.

Stitched Cloth

Composition made by me

This is the most basic design I’ve made using a single component and arranged it randomly without making any closure at first, which makes me think about proximity which is one of the Gestalt principles so had to think harder to make sense out of it and would think like there were pieces of cloth and all of them were stitched together randomly and maybe other people would perceive something different out of that or something which makes sense to a human mind.

2. The Bee view

Composition made by me

The bee was flying in the night in the city and then would just settle down and stare upwards in the sky which includes street lights and the stars which I could imagine what a bee would see as its point of view from below.

3. Holding on

Composition made by me

This is something random and I thought that it also applies some closure and focal point in the composition as per through my perception. I would just stare at this from a distance and would think like a story being constructed in my mind that two insects are attached very strongly and now they would like to be apart by pulling themselves in different directions.

4. The Reflection

Composition made by me

In this composition, I could perceive my thoughts on the reflection that I view in the sea that includes a moon and the shabby lines would convey as the reflection on the water. I could also convey that its shows a focal point and also a figure-ground.

5. Two eyes in a pod

Composition made by me

I don’t even get how did I make this it was something artistic look for me and in which I could find closure, two focal points and somewhat continuity in my composition. I would just see the design and the first thing which pops up in my mind is an eye and could see some lines connecting above the eye which makes me think like a pod, and those two eyes are like staring at each other and those eyes have a different pod of view.

6. The Sprinkles

Composition made by me

When I saw this again this would simply create a closure in my mind to see boxes and on that thought, I could see some sprinkles that may be of salt or sugar which also displays continuity in the design and I could even perceive them as diamond dust which is my different perception towards that composition.

7. A leap of faith

Composition made by me

This composition also shows me about closure and proximity in the elements. I would keep this drawing at a distance and watch it and I perceive it as a human who is dodging obstacles which are in between in this human’s journey, so the person doesn’t have to stop and just have to take a leap of faith and continue by dodging all the obstacles to reach his destination.

8. The Mark

Composition made by me

This design definitely made closure in my mind as soon as I saw the pattern in a continuum and the first that popped in my mind was the impression of a tire on the surface like wet soil with a puddle maybe which therefore shows the reflection of the moon on that puddle.

9. The Almighty

Composition made by me

I think I’m too much biased over an eye so in this composition also I saw an eye; my mind is always like to make the closure of the things which I perceive. So this is a composition with a focal point and also applies proximity within. There are some little circles which I could think of some people there and like the eye which I would perceive now as a god who is watching over those people.

10. The Attraction

Composition made by me

Who attracts whom, definitely not a girl or boy because I couldn’t perceive that in this, yeah but I could see some magnets floating up and could see a metal piece with the lines conveying the attraction towards the magnet.