版面设计，又称为版式设计，是平面设计中的一大分支，主要指运用造型要素及形式原理，对版面内的文本字体、图像图形、线条、表格、色块等要素，按照一定的要求进行编排，并以视觉方式艺术地表达出来，并通过对这些要素的编排，使观看者直觉的感受到某些要传递的意思。

版面设计并非只用于书刊的排版当中，网页、广告、海报等涉及到平面及影像的众多领域都会用到版面设计。好的版面设计可以更好的传达作者想要传达的信息，或者加强信息传达的效果，并能增强易读性，使经过版面设计的内容更加醒目、美观。版面设计是艺术构思与编排技术相结合的工作，是艺术与技术的统一体。

Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement of visual elements on a page. It generally involves organizational principles of composition to achieve specific communication objectives.

The high-level page layout involves deciding on the overall arrangement of text and images, and possibly on the size or shape of the medium. It requires intelligence, sentience, and creativity, and is informed by culture, psychology, and what the document authors and editors wish to communicate and emphasize. Low-level pagination and typesetting are more mechanical processes. Given certain parameters - boundaries of text areas, the typeface, font size, and justification preference can be done in a straightforward way. Until desktop publishing became dominant, these processes were still done by people, but in modern publishing they are almost always automated. The result might be published as-is (as for a phone book interior) or might be tweaked by a graphic designer (as for a highly polished, expensive publication).