Board game is a game with a sense of reality. The way people collect, recognize and think about the image information in board game will have a profound impact on the art design concept of board game terminal developers. Image recognition can influence the art pattern of board games within the framework of traditional art. The graphic design of board games can also determine the continuation of the cognitive level brought by images and the leapfrog expansion of thinking. Moreover, there are different guidance paths between image cognition and art design to strengthen the author's thinking linkage. Therefore, it is possible for us to propose the design method of board game art from the perspective of cognitive psychology.