Layout and Spacing
Layout and spacing define how elements are arranged and proportioned within a design, ensuring clarity, hierarchy, and an intuitive user experience. In Occam, these guidelines simplify Zuora’s complex functionality and minimize visual clutter to provide graphical structure, seamless navigation, and clear readability.
Two core principles guide our approach:
- Progressively Reveal Capabilities: Show only the most relevant information upfront, allowing users to uncover details as needed.
- Strive for Minimalism: Start with a clean, essential design, resisting unnecessary complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Grid System
The grid provides a structured foundation for layouts, ensuring consistency and scalability across different screens and use cases. It helps maintain alignment, spacing, and hierarchy, creating a predictable rhythm that enhances usability.
- Consistency: A shared grid system aligns elements across pages, reinforcing familiarity.
- Flexibility: A modular approach allows layouts to scale while maintaining structure.
- Balance: Even spacing and proportions improve readability and reduce visual noise.
Layout Composition
Layout establishes hierarchy and structure, ensuring content is intuitive and easy to navigate. By prioritizing key elements and minimizing distractions, we guide users toward relevant actions without overwhelming them.
Alignment & Consistency
Consistent alignment and controlled spacing create a visually balanced layout, reinforcing order and readability. Proper alignment improves hierarchy, while consistency in spacing and structure fosters familiarity, making interactions more intuitive over time.
Spacing & Proximity
Spacing defines relationships between elements, reducing cognitive load and improving usability. It includes padding, margins, and proximity to visually grouping related components, making scanning interfaces more straightforward and easier.
- Visual Grouping: Thoughtful spacing helps users naturally associate related actions, information, and components.
- User Connections: Spacing enhances usability by clarifying relationships between UI elements, avoiding clutter, and improving interaction efficiency.
Practical Application
- Containers & Components: Generous padding prevents overcrowding and highlights essential content, progressively revealing secondary details as needed.
- Interactive Elements: Consistent spacing maintains clarity, preventing visual clutter while ensuring usability.
- Layering & Elevation: Depth directs user focus, surfacing key actions at the right moments. By leveraging elevation, we reinforce hierarchy and ensure users engage with the most critical elements first. Learn more about Occam’s elevation system.
In Occam, layout and spacing create clarity, hierarchy, and adaptability, ensuring an intuitive and efficient experience. By emphasizing simplicity and consistency, we guide users seamlessly through a robust, feature-rich environment—reinforcing our clarity, elegance, and adaptability philosophy.
Crafted with ❤️ at Zuora
© 2025 Zuora Inc.
Layout and Spacing
Layout and spacing define how elements are arranged and proportioned within a design, ensuring clarity, hierarchy, and an intuitive user experience. In Occam, these guidelines simplify Zuora’s complex functionality and minimize visual clutter to provide graphical structure, seamless navigation, and clear readability.
Two core principles guide our approach:
- Progressively Reveal Capabilities: Show only the most relevant information upfront, allowing users to uncover details as needed.
- Strive for Minimalism: Start with a clean, essential design, resisting unnecessary complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Grid System
The grid provides a structured foundation for layouts, ensuring consistency and scalability across different screens and use cases. It helps maintain alignment, spacing, and hierarchy, creating a predictable rhythm that enhances usability.
- Consistency: A shared grid system aligns elements across pages, reinforcing familiarity.
- Flexibility: A modular approach allows layouts to scale while maintaining structure.
- Balance: Even spacing and proportions improve readability and reduce visual noise.
Layout Composition
Layout establishes hierarchy and structure, ensuring content is intuitive and easy to navigate. By prioritizing key elements and minimizing distractions, we guide users toward relevant actions without overwhelming them.
Alignment & Consistency
Consistent alignment and controlled spacing create a visually balanced layout, reinforcing order and readability. Proper alignment improves hierarchy, while consistency in spacing and structure fosters familiarity, making interactions more intuitive over time.
Spacing & Proximity
Spacing defines relationships between elements, reducing cognitive load and improving usability. It includes padding, margins, and proximity to visually grouping related components, making scanning interfaces more straightforward and easier.
- Visual Grouping: Thoughtful spacing helps users naturally associate related actions, information, and components.
- User Connections: Spacing enhances usability by clarifying relationships between UI elements, avoiding clutter, and improving interaction efficiency.
Practical Application
- Containers & Components: Generous padding prevents overcrowding and highlights essential content, progressively revealing secondary details as needed.
- Interactive Elements: Consistent spacing maintains clarity, preventing visual clutter while ensuring usability.
- Layering & Elevation: Depth directs user focus, surfacing key actions at the right moments. By leveraging elevation, we reinforce hierarchy and ensure users engage with the most critical elements first. Learn more about Occam’s elevation system.
In Occam, layout and spacing create clarity, hierarchy, and adaptability, ensuring an intuitive and efficient experience. By emphasizing simplicity and consistency, we guide users seamlessly through a robust, feature-rich environment—reinforcing our clarity, elegance, and adaptability philosophy.
Crafted with ❤️ at Zuora
© 2025 Zuora Inc.
Foundations
Layout and Spacing
Layout and spacing define how elements are arranged and proportioned within a design, ensuring clarity, hierarchy, and an intuitive user experience. In Occam, these guidelines simplify Zuora’s complex functionality and minimize visual clutter to provide graphical structure, seamless navigation, and clear readability.
Two core principles guide our approach:
- Progressively Reveal Capabilities: Show only the most relevant information upfront, allowing users to uncover details as needed.
- Strive for Minimalism: Start with a clean, essential design, resisting unnecessary complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Grid System
The grid provides a structured foundation for layouts, ensuring consistency and scalability across different screens and use cases. It helps maintain alignment, spacing, and hierarchy, creating a predictable rhythm that enhances usability.
- Consistency: A shared grid system aligns elements across pages, reinforcing familiarity.
- Flexibility: A modular approach allows layouts to scale while maintaining structure.
- Balance: Even spacing and proportions improve readability and reduce visual noise.
Layout Composition
Layout establishes hierarchy and structure, ensuring content is intuitive and easy to navigate. By prioritizing key elements and minimizing distractions, we guide users toward relevant actions without overwhelming them.
Alignment & Consistency
Consistent alignment and controlled spacing create a visually balanced layout, reinforcing order and readability. Proper alignment improves hierarchy, while consistency in spacing and structure fosters familiarity, making interactions more intuitive over time.
Spacing & Proximity
Spacing defines relationships between elements, reducing cognitive load and improving usability. It includes padding, margins, and proximity to visually grouping related components, making scanning interfaces more straightforward and easier.
- Visual Grouping: Thoughtful spacing helps users naturally associate related actions, information, and components.
- User Connections: Spacing enhances usability by clarifying relationships between UI elements, avoiding clutter, and improving interaction efficiency.
Practical Application
- Containers & Components: Generous padding prevents overcrowding and highlights essential content, progressively revealing secondary details as needed.
- Interactive Elements: Consistent spacing maintains clarity, preventing visual clutter while ensuring usability.
- Layering & Elevation: Depth directs user focus, surfacing key actions at the right moments. By leveraging elevation, we reinforce hierarchy and ensure users engage with the most critical elements first. Learn more about Occam’s elevation system.
In Occam, layout and spacing create clarity, hierarchy, and adaptability, ensuring an intuitive and efficient experience. By emphasizing simplicity and consistency, we guide users seamlessly through a robust, feature-rich environment—reinforcing our clarity, elegance, and adaptability philosophy.
Crafted with ❤️ at Zuora
© 2025 Zuora Inc.
Foundations
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Layout and Spacing
Layout and spacing define how elements are arranged and proportioned within a design, ensuring clarity, hierarchy, and an intuitive user experience. In Occam, these guidelines simplify Zuora’s complex functionality and minimize visual clutter to provide graphical structure, seamless navigation, and clear readability.
Two core principles guide our approach:
- Progressively Reveal Capabilities: Show only the most relevant information upfront, allowing users to uncover details as needed.
- Strive for Minimalism: Start with a clean, essential design, resisting unnecessary complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Grid System
The grid provides a structured foundation for layouts, ensuring consistency and scalability across different screens and use cases. It helps maintain alignment, spacing, and hierarchy, creating a predictable rhythm that enhances usability.
- Consistency: A shared grid system aligns elements across pages, reinforcing familiarity.
- Flexibility: A modular approach allows layouts to scale while maintaining structure.
- Balance: Even spacing and proportions improve readability and reduce visual noise.
Layout Composition
Layout establishes hierarchy and structure, ensuring content is intuitive and easy to navigate. By prioritizing key elements and minimizing distractions, we guide users toward relevant actions without overwhelming them.
Alignment & Consistency
Consistent alignment and controlled spacing create a visually balanced layout, reinforcing order and readability. Proper alignment improves hierarchy, while consistency in spacing and structure fosters familiarity, making interactions more intuitive over time.
Spacing & Proximity
Spacing defines relationships between elements, reducing cognitive load and improving usability. It includes padding, margins, and proximity to visually grouping related components, making scanning interfaces more straightforward and easier.
- Visual Grouping: Thoughtful spacing helps users naturally associate related actions, information, and components.
- User Connections: Spacing enhances usability by clarifying relationships between UI elements, avoiding clutter, and improving interaction efficiency.
Practical Application
- Containers & Components: Generous padding prevents overcrowding and highlights essential content, progressively revealing secondary details as needed.
- Interactive Elements: Consistent spacing maintains clarity, preventing visual clutter while ensuring usability.
- Layering & Elevation: Depth directs user focus, surfacing key actions at the right moments. By leveraging elevation, we reinforce hierarchy and ensure users engage with the most critical elements first. Learn more about Occam’s elevation system.
In Occam, layout and spacing create clarity, hierarchy, and adaptability, ensuring an intuitive and efficient experience. By emphasizing simplicity and consistency, we guide users seamlessly through a robust, feature-rich environment—reinforcing our clarity, elegance, and adaptability philosophy.
Crafted with ❤️ at Zuora
© 2025 Zuora Inc.
Foundations
On This Page
Layout & Spacing
Layout and spacing define how elements are arranged and proportioned within a design, ensuring clarity, hierarchy, and an intuitive user experience. In Occam, these guidelines simplify Zuora’s complex functionality and minimize visual clutter to provide graphical structure, seamless navigation, and clear readability.
Two core principles guide our approach:
- Progressively Reveal Capabilities: Show only the most relevant information upfront, allowing users to uncover details as needed.
- Strive for Minimalism: Start with a clean, essential design, resisting unnecessary complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Grid System
The grid provides a structured foundation for layouts, ensuring consistency and scalability across different screens and use cases. It helps maintain alignment, spacing, and hierarchy, creating a predictable rhythm that enhances usability.
- Consistency: A shared grid system aligns elements across pages, reinforcing familiarity.
- Flexibility: A modular approach allows layouts to scale while maintaining structure.
- Balance: Even spacing and proportions improve readability and reduce visual noise.
Layout Composition
Layout establishes hierarchy and structure, ensuring content is intuitive and easy to navigate. By prioritizing key elements and minimizing distractions, we guide users toward relevant actions without overwhelming them.
Alignment & Consistency
Consistent alignment and controlled spacing create a visually balanced layout, reinforcing order and readability. Proper alignment improves hierarchy, while consistency in spacing and structure fosters familiarity, making interactions more intuitive over time.
Spacing & Proximity
Spacing defines relationships between elements, reducing cognitive load and improving usability. It includes padding, margins, and proximity to visually grouping related components, making scanning interfaces more straightforward and easier.
- Visual Grouping: Thoughtful spacing helps users naturally associate related actions, information, and components.
- User Connections: Spacing enhances usability by clarifying relationships between UI elements, avoiding clutter, and improving interaction efficiency.
Practical Application
- Containers & Components: Generous padding prevents overcrowding and highlights essential content, progressively revealing secondary details as needed.
- Interactive Elements: Consistent spacing maintains clarity, preventing visual clutter while ensuring usability.
- Layering & Elevation: Depth directs user focus, surfacing key actions at the right moments. By leveraging elevation, we reinforce hierarchy and ensure users engage with the most critical elements first. Learn more about Occam’s elevation system.
In Occam, layout and spacing create clarity, hierarchy, and adaptability, ensuring an intuitive and efficient experience. By emphasizing simplicity and consistency, we guide users seamlessly through a robust, feature-rich environment—reinforcing our clarity, elegance, and adaptability philosophy.
Crafted with ❤️ at Zuora
© 2025 Zuora Inc.