Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
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Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#2My biggest beef with infographics is that they are almost always a static image. This is 2012. Why not make something interactive? It could help address several of the author's points as well.
Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#3Why does the URL say "10 reasons..." but the article title says "11 reasons..."? Honestly, that bothers me enough to not even read the rest.
Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#4My biggest beef with infographics is that they are almost always a static image. This is 2012. Why not make something interactive? It could help address several of the author's points as well.
My prediction is that interactive graphics will be the trend in coming years - the things you can do with d3.js, Protovis, and related JS libraries is way deeper than a simple static image. The New York Times already has some great interactive pieces, e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/13/business/stude...
Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#5My biggest beef with infographics is that they are almost always a static image. This is 2012. Why not make something interactive? It could help address several of the author's points as well.
I don't disagree but there's certainly more complexity with interactive. Takes longer to execute (sketch, design, develop, test). And then many designers don't know how to do interactive front-end code.
Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#6My biggest beef with infographics is that they are almost always a static image. This is 2012. Why not make something interactive? It could help address several of the author's points as well.
With HTML5, you could probably make an accessible infographic (that works correctly for screen-reader and text-browser users)
Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#7Why does the URL say "10 reasons..." but the article title says "11 reasons..."? Honestly, that bothers me enough to not even read the rest.
People rename articles, but URLs are not supposed to change, and should never break.
Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#8As a designer I'd like to thank you for this post. This recent fad of "infographics" (some text in rectangles + pie chart) is quite sad. These things are information graphics about as much as fake lens flares were graphic design in the 90s.
Side note: are you serious about people paying for this?
Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#9My biggest beef with infographics is that they are almost always a static image. This is 2012. Why not make something interactive? It could help address several of the author's points as well.
Static images are easier to share.