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Visual Design

Visual Design is a design discipline that systematically organizes visual elements—including typography, composition, color, and form—to communicate meaning and solve visual communication problems.

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2017–2026

656

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Visual Communication Design

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Reading images: the grammar of visual design

Choice Reviews Online · 1996 · 8.8K citations

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Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information

Jock D. Mackinlay · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 1986 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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Seeing things: consumer response to the visual domain in product design

Nathan Crilly, James Moultrie, P. John Clarkson · Design Studies · 2004 · 951 citations · Full text

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A Nested Model for Visualization Design and Validation

Tamara Munzner · IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · 2009 · 899 citations

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READING IMAGES - THE GRAMMAR OF VISUAL DESIGN

Tran Thi Thuy · VNU Journal of Foreign Studies · 2017 · 861 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. MA
    Maneesh Agrawala

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    12 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. AH
    Aaron Hertzmann

    University of Toronto, Canada

    9 publications · 794 citations

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  3. CG
    Carl Gutwin

    University of Saskatchewan, Canada

    9 publications · 556 citations

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  4. CK
    Charles Kostelnick

    Iowa State University, United States

    8 publications · 336 citations

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  5. CD
    Christopher D. Wickens

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    8 publications · 830 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    24 h-index

    58 publications

    3.2K citations

  2. Adobe Systems (United States)

    San Jose, United States

    23 h-index

    65 publications

    3.8K citations

  3. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    22 h-index

    71 publications

    3.6K citations

  4. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    22 h-index

    57 publications

    2.4K citations

  5. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    18 h-index

    44 publications

    2K citations

  6. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    17 h-index

    44 publications

    2.8K citations

  7. Microsoft (United States)

    Redmond, United States

    17 h-index

    46 publications

    3.3K citations

  8. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    17 h-index

    44 publications

    1.6K citations

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Venues

  1. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

    TVCG · 65 publications · 7.7K citations

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  2. Design Studies

    34 publications · 4.2K citations

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  3. ACM Transactions on Graphics

    TOG · 27 publications · 4.2K citations

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  5. Color Research & Application

    50 publications · 1.5K citations

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See also

Visual Design

Core Elements

Design Principles

Core Methods

Applications

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