…and the winner is… Design and plain language: Visual hierarchy at user’s service “Design is not only about making things attractive. Its main job is to help people easily understand and use information. In plain language, design plays a key role in two areas: typographic legibility and visual hierarchy.” In their article in this issue of the PLAIN eJournal, Blas José Subiela Hernández, Mario F. Benito Cabello, and Ricardo Vizcaíno-Laorga show before and after images of designs that went wrong: one from the 2017 Oscars and the other a letter to an older adult informing them that their requ
This article appears in PLAIN eJournal Vol. 7, No. 1: Structure and Design. Read the full issue →
