Purpose | This study aspires to highlight the significance of the aesthetics or the visual design of digital artifacts, demand for adequate training in visual design by computer science tutors and students alike, as well as the absence of same in the present computer science curricula. Methodology | The study reviewed comprehensive research literature on the significance and implications of good aesthetics of digital artifacts, enquired into its current demand amongst the tutors and students of computer science, and also explored the acknowledgement, and inclusion of any training in visual design in the present undergraduate computer science programs curricula