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THINK LIKE A DESIGNER
by Anna Vital
notes from workshop “How To Make Infographics”
The Key
Use analogies
Write less text
Make literal icons
Make data meaningful
What’s an Infographic?
Data
Design
Journalism
How to find the data?
Ask precise questions.
How to ask precise questions?
Predict the answer.
No, really, how to find data?
(Ask for it.)
(Then ask again.)
source: Funders and Founders
(Leverage what you got.)
What if the data is a secret?(Find a paradigm case.)
(And put your a** on the line.)
source: Funders and Founders
Why is the data not in one place?
source: Funders and Founders
Good data is about grouping.
source: Funders and Founders
Good data is about
overlapping.
How to sort messy data?
(Ask the data guy.)
Being a Journalist
what do people care about?
not numbers
not design
meaning
where is the
meaning?
meaningful graphics
detail is meaningful
source: Funders and Founders
selection is
meaningful
source: anna.vc
what helps
people get through the day
location is meaningful
-don’t ignore it
source: space.com
sections are not an
infographic layout
Being a Designer
Where to start?
with the analogy
with the layout
with graphs
with icons
The Infographic
Process
Example 2: illustrating behance.net
Example 1: sketching behance.net
Example 3: details behance.net
