I have used infographs a
little bit in work and do find them useful to use when trying to represent a
lot of data in a more visually interesting and easy to digest way.
Infographics are being increasingly used by
companies and newspapers to get information out to the public. I suppose what they have over Excel or
Powerpoint is that they can look a little bit more fun and colourful but also
very professional without you having to do a lot of work to make it so.
Piktochart is
the infographic web tool that I have used, albeit not the pro version. While the free version only has a limited
number of templates, I find that there
is still enough of a variety of templates to use to adapt to most of the
data presentation needs I have.
And if
you are very adventurous or very creative, you can do a complete infograph from scratch. Lots of the pictures and symbols are a bit
Americanised but at least there are lots of choices. It also allows great freedom when it comes to
colours, fonts and the movement of the boxes in the templates so you can really
create what you want to with a little bit of imagination.
Infographs can
also be inserted into Facebook or Twitter feeds as well so that can be a good
way of getting information across to your intended audience.
Below is an infograph inspired by the Rugby World Cup.
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