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Friday, September 27, 2013

Creating infographics and creating them well is not an easy task, it’s actually a challenge and requires a designer to get documented first, practice and only afterwards to actually design one for a client.


Infographics are a visual representation of information and is quite popular these days due to the fact that everything that is visual is almost automatically well received by the public. This has made data visualization a thing that “must be done” by every designer, and that is almost always a bad thing.


Creating good data visualization is not the same as designing a brochure, flyer or a poster. 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.


The purpose of infographics is to visualize data, to communicate information clearly and efficiently. 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 they managed to add incorrect data which can only confuse the viewers.


He’s 243% baby boomer


He’s 243% baby boomer Badly Designed Infographic


As the crow flies


As the crow flies Badly Designed Infographic


You know you’re in trouble when your design firm opts for the overlapping wedges for their homepage banner


You know you’re in trouble when your design firm opts for the overlapping wedges for their homepage banner Badly Designed Infographic


The spiral staircase


The spiral staircase Badly Designed Infographic


100% chance of cloudy data


100% chance of cloudy data Badly Designed Infographic


Donut charts are mostly for decoration, right?


Donut charts are mostly for decoration, right? Badly Designed Infographic


Ugh, poor people


Ugh, poor people Badly Designed Infographic


Apparently we are supposed to make a connection between income, driving and ???


Apparently we are supposed to make a connection between income, driving and ??? Badly Designed Infographic


Lovely user humps


Lovely user humps Badly Designed Infographic


Top 10 salaries at Google


Top 10 salaries at Google Badly Designed Infographic


Divorced from data


Divorced from data Badly Designed Infographic


In the future


In the future Badly Designed Infographic


Parabolic labeling


Parabolic labeling Badly Designed Infographic


Unpaid design work


Unpaid design work Badly Designed Infographic


Blueberry pie


Blueberry pie Badly Designed Infographic


Recursive donuts


Recursive donuts Badly Designed Infographic


Just a working draft


Just a working draft Badly Designed Infographic


Personality circle


Personality circle Badly Designed Infographic


Mindmap mindfuck


Mindmap mindfuck Badly Designed Infographic


The donut ring explosion


The donut ring explosion Badly Designed Infographic


Disconnected subway map? Sequential, linear relationships?


Disconnected subway map? Sequential, linear relationships? Badly Designed Infographic


Fantastically designed user experience. /s


Fantastically designed user experience. /s Badly Designed Infographic


20 Obamas is just too much for our economy


20 Obamas is just too much for our economy Badly Designed Infographic


Honey I shrunk the car


Honey I shrunk the car Badly Designed Infographic


Well, that clears things right up. /s


Well, that clears things right up. /s Badly Designed Infographic


Pay close attention to the 75% donut chart


pay close attention to the 75% donut chart Badly Designed Infographic


Data darkness


Data darkness Badly Designed Infographic


The layered pie slices


The layered pie slices Badly Designed Infographic


The percentages


The percentages Badly Designed Infographic


The nautilus


The nautilus Badly Designed Infographic


The dehydrating donut chart


The dehydrating donut chart Badly Designed Infographic


Let the data out of the bag


Let the data out of the bag Badly Designed Infographic








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