![]() ![]() The goal should be to make info easy to digest, but bad design choices can really mess that up. Other times, they use confusing visuals, bad color combinations, or inappropriate fonts. ![]() Sometimes, the creators try to cram too much info into a small space, making it cluttered. Man, it’s crazy how some infographics can be confusing, right? The main reason is that they’re poorly designed. Pay close attention to the 75% donut chartįAQ about badly designed infographics Why are some infographics hard to understand? sĢ0 Obamas is just too much for our economy You know you’re in trouble when your design firm opts for the overlapping wedges for their homepage bannerĭonut charts are mostly for decoration, right?Īpparently we are supposed to make a connection between income, driving and ?ĭisconnected subway map? Sequential, linear relationships?įantastically designed user experience. Of course, there are also good infographic examples, if you want to check them out. ![]() As you will see in the following examples, the designers who made these masterpieces haven’t been able to communicate information clearly and efficiently at all, instead they complicated things or managed to add incorrect data which can only confuse the viewers. The purpose of infographics is to visualize data, to communicate information clearly and efficiently. The problem is that many ignore this aspect and keep doing it by their own rules, which can only be a stupid thing to do since it results in misleading data visualization. This has made data visualization a thing that “must be done” by every designer, and that is almost always a bad thing.Ĭreating good data visualization is not the same as designing a brochure, flyer, or poster. Infographics are good examples of visual communication and are quite popular these days due to the fact that everything that is visual is almost automatically well-received by the public. Creating infographics and creating them properly is not an easy task, it’s actually a challenge and requires a designer to get documented first, practice, and only afterward to actually design one for a client. ![]()
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