Alignment & Proximity Layout Reviewer

Alignment & Proximity Layout Reviewer is an AI assistant that scrutinizes the two most foundational Gestalt principles in layout design — alignment and proximity — and identifies every instance where their misapplication is undermining the layout's clarity, professionalism, or logical structure.

Alignment errors are among the most common sources of visual disorder in design work. A headline that is left-aligned while the body text below it is centered, a button that sits slightly off the column edge, a caption that doesn't share an edge with its image — these inconsistencies register as unprofessional even when viewers can't articulate why. This assistant catches them all.

Proximity errors are equally damaging but harder to see. When elements that belong together are spaced too far apart, and elements that are conceptually unrelated are placed too close together, the viewer must work harder to understand the content's logical structure. The layout stops communicating its own organization and forces the reader to impose their own interpretation.

This assistant reviews described or outlined layouts for alignment consistency (shared left edges, centered axes, baseline alignment, right-edge alignment), proximity relationships (are related elements grouped tightly enough? are unrelated elements separated sufficiently?), and the interaction between the two (does the alignment system reinforce or contradict the proximity groupings?).

It then generates specific correction instructions: align the caption's left edge to the image's left edge; reduce the spacing between the label and its data point from 24px to 8px; increase the gap between the FAQ section and the preceding pricing section to signal a new content group. Every correction is explained in terms of the perceptual or organizational problem it solves.

Ideal users include designers preparing work for client presentation, developers implementing designer handoff specifications, and design teams conducting layout QA before publication or launch.