Infographics

Do you have an infographic?

An infographic is a collection of imagery, data visualizations like pie charts and bar graphs, and minimal text that gives an easy-to-understand overview of a topic. As in the example below, infographics use striking, engaging visuals to communicate information quickly and clearly.

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Easelly offers 3 different pricing plans for students, individuals, and businesses ranging from $2-$5. You can try easelly for 7 days risk-free money-back guaranteed. With the standard features, you have access to 320+ templates, over a million icons and photos and can export in PDF, JPEG, and PNG formats. Easelly offers great templates and flexible features which anyone can learn through visual and textual design, but the site's free version provides limited themes and images. I was discouraged to keep using easelly due to having to upgrade for the template I wanted to use. Overall, this tool can help anyone connect with content in a meaningful way. 

Piktochart offers 3 different pricing plans ranging from free to custom plans. With the free account you are limited on the storage for image uploads, downloads, folders, but you do get unlimited access to templates, images, illustrations, icons, charts and maps. Design quality and inspirational templates are at the top with anyone creating professional looking infographics with just a few clicks. I found this tool to be quite easy and user friendly compared to the other two. I was able to create my infographic immediately without needing tutorials. The only downfall is limited downloads before having to upgrade. 

Infogram offers 5 different pricing plans from basic to enterprise ranging from free to over $150 a month. With the free account, you have access to 37 interactive charts, up to 10 projects and 5 pages per project, publish content online, import data, and object animations. Infogram offers a friendly interface and easy for non-technical people to navigate the wide variety of visualizations, charts, and graphic elements. The downfalls of infogram is having to be online to use the tools, can't create complex visualizations, and limitations on customizing the templates. 

Overall: I chose piktochart because it reminded me a lot like Canva which I use daily for work. I was able to use one of the templates to work with and had my final design done in minutes without needing design experience. The tools and site where very user friendly and I was able to make changes to my template quickly. I found inserting the data to create my bar graphs from my source to be quite easy. The setup of the graph was already there, I just needed to change the information to match mine from the article. 

References

7 surprises about libraries in our surveys. (2014, June 30). Pew Research Center.

            Retrieved February 26, 2022, from https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/
            
            2014/06/30/7-surprises-about-libraries-in-our-surveys/

Nediger, M., & guide, s. (2021, October 19). What is an Infographic? Examples, Templates, Design Tips. Venngage. Retrieved February 26, 2022, from https://venngage.com/blog/what-is-an-infographic/