A clean, editorial-style landing page for thoughtbot's research report on healthcare software delivery, with insights from engineering and product leaders.
The page opens like a printed survey rather than a typical software landing page — warm bone-white paper, dense dark umber type, and a single column that asks to be read, not scrolled past. The typography pairing is the quiet hero: Cosmica sets the structural headlines with a confident, slightly condensed industrial tone, while Redaction supplies a notational, almost annotated feel for the body. That juxtaposition of engineered and journalistic signals is what makes the art direction feel like an editorial study, not a product drop. Throughout the long scroll, rhythm is built by alternating generous white space with compact blocks of large statistics and thin text columns. The restrained palette — near-black browns against off-white, with muted gray panel accents — holds a serious, technical atmosphere without feeling cold. Nothing competes with the findings; the design gives the data room to breathe, using thin rules and close leading to imply a structured report. Large numerals become visual anchors, while the serif body text grounds each claim in a sense of documentation. The overall atmosphere is one of calm authority. The page avoids the usual gradient-and-grid clichés of research report landing pages, instead trusting an almost print-like hierarchy to carry the narrative. Its restrained use of color and texture gives the viewer a rare sense of being inside a well-designed document rather than being sold a PDF. That confidence — letting content shape the interface — is what makes the art direction feel deliberate and worth saving.








