Design System for Sketch and Figma — www. visualsystem.co

Emptiness is an essential aspect of life. Imagine listening sound without spaces between the notes. You’d have a linear stream of noise. Same goes for photography, architecture, painting, sculpturing. And designers use it too.

Space is a human need. — Ken Hiebert

What space adds to our design:

Emphasis

Hierarchy

Legibility

Content structure

Drama and tension

It’s important that when you’re putting together a design layout that you let the elements breathe. To do that we need to low room between elements and create white space. It creates focus points for our users and leading their eyes to go through elements.

Everyone ‘looks’ at things but very few people ‘see’ effectively — Greg Berryman

As a designer, you need to see. This ability allows you to be aware of visual language.

Emptiness

One of the most overlooked elements in visual design is emptiness. If you are beginner you will try to fill every last bit of empty space. More experienced designers will encourage you to use more and more white space. From the user standpoint, very few people will complain that it has too much whitespace. Lack of emptiness causes visual noise.

Now let’s see an example: