[jamesash]

On one hand I love this level of nitpicking.

On the other hand, by the standards of what an undergraduate organic chemistry student is looking for from a free online resource, and given that it is just one guy doing this, in his spare time, I think this is absolutely fine.

(I have a competing website on organic chemistry and I think this guy does a much better job on graphics than I do.)

[light_hue_1]

Oh I agree entirely. I totally don't want to detract from the work!

[sdfsdfsfds]

I don't think we need to bend over backwards to avoid any kind of criticism of this project. It's clearly a personal passion project and nobody is saying it is less than "fine". I guess it's an American norm to be very circumspect about any kind of negative appraisal.

It takes time and training to pull off design like this, and while it might work as a fun infographic, it is not as polished or beautiful as it could be. There is room for improvement.

As far as the "graphic design POV" goes, that involves intuitive assessments of things like negative space, colour, and density of graphic elements and text. It involves things like the five Gestalt principles, or the CARP principles, although these are not prescriptions that anyone can follow. They're more like rationalisations of what has been found to work.