A good infographic design is sure to attract the attention of the people. This is probably one of the most effective ways of conveying and sharing most complex thoughts and ideas clearly. Following are the few tips which can help you a lot in visualizing your data.
Start the job with ‘Why’
As an infographic designer you should have the habit of asking questions constantly. A continuous process of enquiring and asking ‘why’ can help you to achieve your target and help you to taste the success.
Make the tough look easy
It is a very common saying that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. This idea effectively works behind infographic. Infographic explain or summarize an idea in a visual manner that seems quite easy for the people to understand.
Make a layout
Do not ever think of taking spot decision as the situation demand. You should take some time and sit for sometime with paper and pen to make a plan of infographic in advance before plunging to the further illustration job. You can use more sidebars and break them to make the design more eye soothing.
Do not make it too clumsy
there are a number of infographic design which are large in size and needs a few screen scrolling before coming to the end. These feature can alone make the format too complicated. Therefore, you should not make it further complicated by using excessive data which are of no use. Select only those data which only contains the necessary messages.
Present a different perspective
A good infographic does not only fetch data and displays it using bar graphs and pie charts. This is a quite common feature available in average quality infographics. Apart from that this job can be done using numbers or excel as well.
Illustrating the sets of data and highlighting the pattern remain within the sets of data helps you to come to the decision that you have successfully given your data the perfect twist from the unique perspective at the time of the presentation.
Execute Research
Your entire effort of designing infographic in the most innovative way will become fruitless if you make mistakes in using numbers. Therefore, it is suggested that you should some prior research works before finally taking the call.
Make the network unique
As an infographic designer the graphic part is the domain where you can show your skills. You should not just copy the designs of the other infographics. This is place where you can show your own style and play with the ideas that will create something unique and your ability will be proved.
Selection of Delivery System
The common infographic style works as the explainer which is a smart and sleek presentation of normal data.
You may take the example of the infographic design which contrasts and compares two data such as Greek vs Nerd. This is a tale which is told through flow chart and timeline or interpret some ideas similarly like a product. You can also view the list similarly as we see tutorial contents that start with how to.
Reduce word count
If you check a few examples of infographics you may find many of them are full of words and most of these words are not necessary and are not going with the infographic ideas. The main intension of this medium is probably communication and conveying the ideas and the concepts along with the shape, pictures, diagrams and graphs.
Conclusion
You should keep your infographics in such a way so that anybody can find it. You can share it through a number of social networking sites like Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook and other blog sites etc. You just need to incorporate media buttons on your website or blog site to share the design with the world.
About the Author:
The above article is written by Angelina who is an associate writer for few Infographic Design Agency. She is an expertise writer for writing articles related to Infographic Design, Logo Reviews and anything that is related to these niche.
image credits Daily Info Graphics
Great article dude, I’ve only started creating infographics for clients recently and I have to say it’s quickly becoming a favourite part of my work! It’s challenging and super rewarding. I mostly do web design & front end development, and infographics are a really welcome change of scene!
I pretty much followed the same path as you suggested but it’s good to know I’ve been on the right track. Thanks, keep up the good work 🙂
Thanks for the tips. I really appreciate infographics because it will retain in the memory more because people think with images and pictures. Presenting a good perspective is great mindset for creating infographics
Nicely done lawmacs! Appreciate the infographics and how you concisely represent basic and actionable beliefs that encourage and support creativity. Kudos!
Is there any special technical knowledge required to learn infographics?
Did you know that Matt Cutts twitted that Google might stop giving any credit to links pointing to infographics? It would still be an awesome source of information but I hope it won’t discourage their makers from making such a good work thinking it’s no longer worth the effort…
Proper visualization of data in the info-graphic especially text and proper balance between graphic and text in helps to grab attention of the visitors in very easy manner. Above tips are worth to make an effective info-graphic.
Infographics are great, they really help get your idea out to your target audience. People tend to understand pictures associated with words better than just words. Even if I’m not interested in the subject of the infographic I’ll still check it out.
Infographics seems really interesting that way how you present it here!
But just a question, can all really learn that without special skills ?
Applying infographics is a great idea as it helps in making our readers understand the real thing which one is trying to explain.It gives a fresh and attractive look to the website.But It should be done in a limit,too much of imposing infographics will ruin everything and will make a page look complex.
Valuable info. A good infographic design is sure to attract the attention of the people. This is probably one of the most effective ways of conveying and sharing most complex thoughts and ideas clearly. Info graphics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. With an information graphic, computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians develop and communicate concepts using a single symbol to process information. Today information graphics surround us in the media, in published works both pedestrian and scientific, in road signs and manuals. They illustrate information that would be unwieldy in text form, and act as visual shorthand for everyday concepts such as stop and go.
Nice changes Lawmacs. A good infographic design is one that attracts people. There should be appealing design ad informative content in infographic. Thanks for sharing these useful tips.
Thank you for writing about this. I’m not a creative, but I see the value in using infographics and suggest to my clients that they use them. I work with a left brained client type and find that using infographics for their marketing helps to communicate finance-related concepts. Suzanne
Infographics is a great way to represent facts and ideas to your readers but unfortunately Google will not give credits to backlinks from Infographics as per tweet of Matt Cutts.
Jane, if you know Designing kind of stuff than its not a problem to lean infographics, its a kind of creative media.
Feroz
Yes, Infographics is a sort of graphics through which information regarding websites are shared. I have a little knowledge about it. Will try to get in depth as soon as I can. Thanks for sharing this information.
Great tips..
Each and every point is important to grab the user attention.
Design should be neat and clear,we shouldn’t make it too clumsy..we must concentrate more on it.