Visual metrics on boundaries of hyperbolic spaces

This is an expository article on visual metrics on boundaries of hyperbolic metric spaces. We discuss the construction of visual metrics, quasisymmetries and their invariants, Hausdorff and conformal dimension, and constructions and applications of Gromov’s round trees. There is a focus on providing examples throughout. These notes are based on the material of a minicourse given by the author at the 2024 Riverside Workshop in Geometric Group Theory.