Information can be beautiful on its own, if you follow some common patterns about contrast, clustering and hierarchy. These are based on the principles of Gesta

Information can be beautiful on its own, if you follow some common patterns about contrast, clustering and hierarchy. These are based on the principles of Gestalt [1] which engineers can learn without having artsy skills by watching books and courses specific for us, e.g. [2]. Do you know about Edward Tufte? His work doesn't revolves specifically about software, but his principles show how to present technical information in the clearest way, and his books [3] are beautiful examples on how to put a technical topic in book form with clean and beautiful layouts. [1] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/gestalt-principles https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/gestalt... [2] https://medium.com/bigcommerce-developer-blog/design-for-developers-the-principles-of-visual-design-672f1fc1fc64 https://medium.com/bigcommerce-developer-blog/design-for-dev... [3] https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi