January 2015
/ˈhī(ə)ˌrärkē/
a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
but we're really talking about
/ˈviZH(əw)əl/ /ˈhī(ə)ˌrärkē/
creating organization into levels of relative importance and prioritization, visually
Paraphrased from: Visual Hierarchy: How Well Does Your Design Communicate?
Whether intentional or not, everything has visual hierarchy. So we might as well use it.
We can make it easier for users and customers to do what they want to do. Which is good.
Some of the big players are:
questions? comments?