Gutenberg Diagram — Why you should know it and use it

Mário R. Andrade
User Experience
Published in
3 min readJun 9, 2013

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The Gutenberg Rule is used to show a user behavior known as reading gravity, the western habit of reading left-to-right, top-to-bottom.

It is represented by dividing the visible content area in 4 quadrants:

  1. A Primary optical area;
  2. Strong fallow area;
  3. Weak fallow area;

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Mário R. Andrade
User Experience

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