Zones

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Give cards, notes, tokens, or running state a labelled place on the page.

Variants

• default

Data fields

The fields a spec's page can set for this component (see switchback show zones --json):

• zones
• columns
• layout

Grounding

Helps: when cards, notes or tokens need a labelled home on the page and the categories are genuinely distinct; items inside the same box tend to be seen as a group

Backfires: when the categories are not really distinct, so the zones freeze a premature taxonomy and manufacture false tidiness, and when an item sits across a border and its zone becomes ambiguous

• CItems placed inside the same bounded region are perceived as belonging together, even against other grouping cues, so labelled zones make category membership readable at a glance.Wagemans et al. (2012)

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