If you have spacings between elements, as you can see here, it's really good to have *the same space between similar types of elements*. So, if you're looking at it, if you remove the little red squares, you're going to instantly see that this all makes sense. But it's really easy to destroy this whole concept by just having random distances. And just those distances alone are something that makes or breaks a layout, because this is just looking a lot better.
And this comes from something called the *red square method*, and you can look it up online on your own as well. This is something that I use quite a lot to talk about grids and layouts because I think that this is one of the easier ways for people to actually get a grasp on the layout part. But consistency in space is also important between similar elements. So, if you have two columns of text and a photo, it's really good to have them have the same spacing all the time.
So, if it doesn't really jump all over the place, our brains are just going to be a lot happier about it. And what you can do to learn this better is to try and recreate some other designs by first *block-framing* them. And block-framing means adding just shapes on top of things. So, a font is a rectangle; a photo is like just a circle; a different photo or a title is another rectangle. And then try to *align just those rectangles* – not the fonts, not the photos, not the little icons – just the rectangles because
that's going to give you the understanding of what you're really dealing with. And, as you can see, we're coming back to the whole thing that design is just about moving rectangles around. Once you learn that everything is a rectangle – well, or a circle, but generally is a simple shape and you have to position them well in space that they have the proper spacing from each other, proper distance, proper hierarchy, then it's going to be a lot easier to just switch it over to the actual images.
This is something that is really important for the *hierarchy* and the *layout*. And if they are perfect, then people are going to forgive you for a lot. So, they're like the drum beat, basically, of your design if it was a song. If the drum beat is off, then everything just kind of falls apart.