White space, alternatively known as "negative space," is the empty space covering the area outside of interactive content. While the term is "white" space, the color of empty spaces aren't always white. White spaces are incredibly effective in producing clean designs, mainly because it helps process visual data more efficiently: "A good way to define chunks and sections in the UI is of course negative space. Our memory capacity is limited so we can easily use white space to create meaningful groups of elements that will help the user to remember them easily in a way that when he interacts with the UI more frequently he could easily recall of sections and where they might appear and mean."

There are two types of negative spaces:

•Micro spaces

•Macro spaces