An interactive bilingual educational app that teaches the four core principles of visual design — Balance, Rhythm, Movement, and Unity — through hands-on practice across 13 progressively challenging exercises.
Click inside the frame and drag shapes to begin. Use fullscreen for the best experience.
Visual design principles are usually taught through lectures and static examples. Balanced takes a different approach: students learn by doing. Each challenge gives instant visual feedback as they arrange elements, helping them internalize the principles intuitively.
Built from the ground up to work in both Arabic and English. The interface, instructions, and feedback are fully translated, with proper RTL support for Arabic. Students can switch languages at any time without losing progress.
Designed for use in design foundation courses at universities and art schools. The progressive difficulty curve takes students from understanding simple two-element balance to composing with rhythm, movement, and unity simultaneously.
Distributing visual weight so no side dominates the composition
Creating regular, alternating, or progressive patterns of repetition
Guiding the viewer's eye through linear paths and scale gradients
Tying elements together through proximity, alignment, and similarity