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Digital design

Digital design is the discipline that creates visual communication and interfaces intended for screens and digital environments

What it means, how it is used and where it comes up, with its related concepts.

What it is and how it works

It covers websites, apps, digital products, social media assets, banners, presentations, motion graphics and device interfaces. Alongside the visual fundamentals of graphic design, such as layout, typography and colour, it considers interaction, adaptation to different screen sizes, accessibility and how elements behave in motion.

It is a broad term. Web design and interface design are specialisms within it, while user experience design deals with more than visuals: how a person achieves their goal across a whole process.

Related concepts

Digital design: what it is and how it works · Zorraquino