🎨 Design · every article series

Design, taught as full courses

Each series is a complete course — long, careful pieces with worked examples, interactive labs, a glossary and a quiz. Read a whole series top to bottom, or drop straight into the part you need.

6Series
34Articles
LabsInteractive
QuizPer series
GlossaryEvery term
prism
compass
grid
balance
layers
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The eight series

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Design — every article series

read a whole course, or drop into any part

Foundations

2 parts

Start here — the two ideas the whole craft rests on.

How Things Work — Usability

6 modules

When a design confuses you, trips you, or lets you fail — it’s the design’s fault, not yours. Six felt modules that prove it.

Gestalt & Perception

6 modules

Six ways the eye groups raw light into objects, groups and meaning — before you ever decide to look.

1ProximityNear means together.

That’s 44 articles across 8 series, live now. More series — motion, iconography and beyond — are in progress and will appear here as they ship.