The Best Articles in Visual Design

Learn the basics of what design tokens are, how they’re used, their benefits, and some tools and resources to get you started.

If we want to understand what a picture is, then we must look at the difference between perception and imagination.

Information architecture ensures content and data is structured, organized, and categorized in an effective and usable way, thereby maximizing the value of your websites and applications.

«Information architecture is a discipline focused on structuring, organizing, and categorizing content and data in an effective and usable way, largely for websites and applications.»

Discover how to tell a compelling and dynamic story using the full power of web design.

An algorithm for creating color palettes for data visualization

I’ve been advocating more daring and bolder use of typography on the web ever since I started the Better Web Type project. Picking a sans-serif font for titles and a serif one for the content is…

Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.

«There’s no need to rely on hues from all around the color wheel like ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤ for your visualizations. It will look more professional – and therefore more trustworthy – when it only uses a few hues and their neighbors.»

A product design philosophy inspired by the brilliance of Total Football, as orchestrated by Johan Cruyff and the 1970s Dutch masters.

Words alone aren’t enough to safeguard best practices in the world of web design and development. Web design documentation must be like its medium — interactive and constantly evolving.

While 95 per cent of designers are fully or partially working from home, over two thirds have greater job satisfaction than before.

Learn how the new #1 App on the App Store uses psychology to promote wasteful consumerism during onboarding.

A new set of principles for better workflows when making digital products

Learn what mistakes to avoid when creating landing pages and how to design highly effective ones using psychology.

Dan Mall distills decades of experience navigating the design world into ten pieces of advice for tackling complex tasks, preventing burnout, and fostering continuous learning.

Creators say they struggle to gain a foothold in a font market dominated by Monotype

Is the Twitter X logo only a Unicode character, or taken from a font? Find out and learn what to consider, when choosing a font for a logo.

“Recently, I’ve noticed a new stylistic trend that’s been overwhelming the app icons populating my phone background. And it’s colorless.”

Tables of contents provide a page overview and direct access to specific sections. When designing a table of contents, carefully compare different placement and styling options to maximize usability.

Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and…

Discover the fundamentals of spatial design. Learn how to design with depth, scale, windows, and immersion, and apply best practices for...

The Wikipedia team shipped a redesign of the ubiquitous and one of the [most visited websites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites) on the web. Alex Hollendar and Jon Robson…

Hey! Chris Coyier here. This is a blog-itized version of a presentation I created. It started life as a Keynote file which I presented in person at RenderATL in June of 2023. I put a lot of work into…