What Makes a Good infographic?

Michael Meaney

New Member
What factors to make a Good infographic?

In my opinion, an infographic is a visual presentation of evidence, not just a pretty picture, it needs to bring what viewers want and need. Therefore, you should look for accuracy, depth, and a presentation that matches what the human visual brain can and cannot do.

what about your thoughts?
 

Mark007

Member
Infographic requires a good design with everything placed at the right corner. It is more like a pictorial flow chart that describes your message to your website visitors. It should be built with utmost care and with relevant information to get the maximum benefit from infographic submissions.
 

cwvps

Member
I see infographics as stories told in pictures. With minimum of words, good infographic needs to have a great storyline, clear, contrast colors and valid information.
 
Good data properly and rigorously processed and organized, structure (narrative or otherwise), copy, and finally, visual style.

An infographic should be thought of as a cognitive tool for understanding, an extension of our visual system: a consequence of this is that its form (or forms) should match the tasks it is supposed to help me complete.

The first step any designer should take before even switching on the computer is to ask herself: “What do I want my reader to get from this graphic? What will the reader try to do with it?”.

Then, she should choose graphic forms accordingly: Do you want to show the geographical pattern of scattering of a variable? Then, you may need a bubble or choropleth map. Do you want readers to be able to accurately compare values and rank the regions? Then, maps or bubbles are inappropriate and you need to use a bar graph or a dot plot. In other words, think about function before you think about aesthetics.
 

Traveler

Active Member
Good data properly and rigorously processed and organized, structure (narrative or otherwise), copy, and finally, visual style.

An infographic should be thought of as a cognitive tool for understanding, an extension of our visual system: a consequence of this is that its form (or forms) should match the tasks it is supposed to help me complete.

The first step any designer should take before even switching on the computer is to ask herself: “What do I want my reader to get from this graphic? What will the reader try to do with it?”.

Then, she should choose graphic forms accordingly: Do you want to show the geographical pattern of scattering of a variable? Then, you may need a bubble or choropleth map. Do you want readers to be able to accurately compare values and rank the regions? Then, maps or bubbles are inappropriate and you need to use a bar graph or a dot plot. In other words, think about function before you think about aesthetics.
We should pay the most attention to having an organized structure as the priority?
 

cmarkcsco

New Member
A good infographic is something that your audience can easily understand and comprehend. It is simple yet elegant.

It has all the information that you need and is pleasing to look at.

Now, making an infographic like that is another story. :Tease:
 
I think infographics should aim for a minimalistic style. They need to be simple and easy to understand, but most of all they have to be quick to skim through.
If people are looking at infographics, it means they're not likely to read anything made up of more than five words there. Short descriptive sentences are the key, combined with keywords to explain how data is organized. This is because images should do the talking: use the right colours and space distribution. It wouldn't be called infographic otherwise.
 

thero

New Member
Coordination is key! Make sure that the colors, fonts, pictures, etc. don't clash. Use a pleasant color scheme that will make the words pop. Try not to use too many fonts. Don't forget that each word must be easily readable. An infographic needs some sort of theme (e.g. should everything be HD or should you use cartoon-style images).
Aside from that, try to be as organized as possible. Group similar thoughts, arrange ideas in proper order, and make sure to emphasize the most important ones.
Tip: Search for design inspirations online. You can also try to get ideas from PowerPoint designs. There are a lot of new and amazing ones right now.
 

Racqualc

New Member
Factors that make the best info graphics in 2017 with majority being visual learners are things that get attention. Your graphic has to tell a story with a visual POP effect related to your subject of business with a twist of 2017 fun . The visual data, color coordination, and word simplicity is a the best was to get your info graphic in the eyes of more people.
 
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