The question I get asked most often is "What software do you use to design infographics?" Although it can be different for every project, here are links to some of the most popular sites and software applications used by designers all over the world.
New sites and applications are continually being released, so submit any links to be considered through the Contact page.
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Dashboards & Data Visualization Platforms
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Smart data discovery, automated predictive analytics and cognitive capabilities enable you to interact with data conversationally.
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A suite of business analytics tools that connect to hundreds of data sources, drive ad hoc analysis, create data visualizations and dashboards
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Data discovery, analytics and visualization platform
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Analytics and visualization platform to explore data, discover the insights and see the story in your data
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Analytics and visualization platform for desktop, online, mobile and enterprise
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Data Visualization Online
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Adioma creates information graphics out of your textual data, using timelines, grids and icons.
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Create impressive charts from spreadsheets. Assemble into dashboards, embed in websites, or simply share a link.
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A Python interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation
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Cacoo is a free online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site map, flowchart, mind map, wire frame, UML diagram and network diagram.
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Crowdsourced Analytics Solution Marketplace - Make Sense of Big Data
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Free interactive charts created online in seconds
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ChartGo is an online graph maker tool. Simply choose your settings, enter your data and hit create.
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Chartle.net tears down the complexity of online visualizations - offers simplicity, ubiquity and interactivity instead.
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ChartsBin is a web-based data visualization tool that allows everyone to create rich interactive visualizations with data
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Service for work with Google Charts API. The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts.
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Circos is a software package for visualizing data and information. It visualizes data in a circular layout
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Beautiful, easy and built for teams. Collaborative diagramming online or desktop app.
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DataBasic is a suite of easy-to-use web tools for beginners that introduce concepts of working with data.
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Quickly and easily visualize the data that matters to you.
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Datavisual makes it easy to create stunning data visualizations.
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Create charts and maps in just four steps.
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DIY (Do it yourself) Chart is a Web-based, simple and powerful online tool to create interactive charts
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DrasticData provides its knowledge, software and experience to organizations to get more results from their data
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Using OpenType features, simple strings of numbers are automatically transformed into charts. The visualized data remains editable, allowing for hassle-free updates and styling.
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Web application which implements a visualization technique based on the visual model of Sankey diagrams.
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Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Playe
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Gapminder World shows the World’s most important trends
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Gliffy is an online application that makes it easy for you to create, share, and collaborate with diagrams.
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Our mission is to drastically simplify the process of obtaining the world's knowledge. We turn complicated data into vivid and contextually-rich visualizations and knowledge products.
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Helping people with everyday data visualizations
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Charting tool enables companies and individuals to brand, market, and share their data as chart content to millions of viewers across the web.
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Create beautiful isometric diagrams and illustrations
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Improving data visualisation for the public sector
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Import your data and isomatic gives you the choice between several isotype layouts
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Free online chart editor with multiple chart styles and download as PNG image
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Lovely Charts is a diagramming application that allows you to create professional looking diagrams of all kinds, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, business processes, organisation charts, wireframes and many more...
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An intuitive and collaborative diagramming solution
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Miso is an open source toolkit designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content.
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On Onlinecharttool.com you can design and share your own charts online and for free.
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It is a piano-looking histogram, so Joey Cloud named it a Pianogram!
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Connect to your database and visualize your data
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Plot the data of the world.
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Plotly is a collaborative data analysis and graphing tool, offering APIs in Python, R and Matlab
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SandDance experiments with a new genre of visualizations, where every data element is always represented on the screen, to help people explore, understand, and communicate insights in their data.
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Create interactive visualizations — charts, graphs, grids and tables
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Easy and Powerful Flowchart Maker
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Turn Your Data into Insight. Fast. Spotfire's interactive dashboards, apps and analytics make it easy.
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Create and share charts for CSV, Excel and JSON files. Connect and visualize data from apps you are using.
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Create infographics and data visualizations without programming.
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Javascript Visualization Libraries & Tools
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AnyChart is a flexible JavaScript (HTML5) based charting solution which will fit any need for data visualization.
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Open source HTML5 charts using the canvas tag. Chart.js is an easy way to include animated graphs on your website.
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Chiasm is a browser based runtime environment and component architecture for interactive data visualizations.
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D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data, and brings data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS.
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dc.js is an easy yet powerful javascript library for data visualization and analysis in the browser and on mobile devices.
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Envision.js is a library for creating fast, dynamic and interactive HTML5 visualizations.
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Give your users a powerful reporting experience with over 90 charts, built-in drill down, chart export, zooming and more.
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Google chart tools are powerful, simple to use, and free. Try out our rich gallery of interactive charts and data tools.
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Create Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web
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Interactive JavaScript charts for your web projects
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A Javascript library to add fast and interactive graph visualization into web-based products.
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TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables you to build visually-rich interactive timelines
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Raw is an open web app to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing D3.js library through a simple interface.
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With Quadrigram you can create & publish data driven websites.
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With dozens of chart types, hundreds of variations, and simple CSS-inspired styling, it's easy to make beautiful JavaScript charts
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a suite of tools that make it easy to create highly interactive web-based visualizations, videos, and maps.
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Word Cloud Design Tools
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Wordle is a popular site for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
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A web application for visualizing word frequencies in any text by creating a word cloud, text cloud or tag cloud.
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Tagxedo turns words into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
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ABCya.com word clouds for kids!
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Tagul is a web service that enables you to create gorgeous word clouds (aka tag clouds).
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ToCloud is an online free word cloud generator that uses word frequency as the weight
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. Free to use and no sign up required!
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Wordclouds.com is a free online word cloud generator and tag cloud creator.
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Data Visualization Methods
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Helping you display your data...by Severino Ribecca
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A website trying to present all relevant data visualizations, so you can find the right visualization and get inspiration on how to do it.
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Poster of data visualization methods
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Great chart chooser with links and tutorials
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Popup examples show you want each style looks like
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The chart chooser is part of the 10-step Extreme Presentation method for designing presentations that drive action
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This site intends to provide a comprehensive data visualization library.
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Data Visualization Software
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Visualizing circular relationships
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FoamTree is a JavaScript tree map visualization with innovative layout algorithms and animations
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Gephi is a, free, open source, interactive visualization and exploration platform for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
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ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics
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Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community.
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R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It runs on UNIX, Windows and MacOS.
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Infographics Design Online
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Amazingly simple graphic design online - Mainly diagrams, photos and icons - not charts
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Create and share visual ideas online
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Create interactive infographics and charts with a few clicks
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Piktochart helps you to create infographics, share and get results in 3 easy steps
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Web Application for building Infographics and Visual Content
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Create infographics in minutes from beautiful templates and examples.
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Visme helps you create HTML5 interactive infographics
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Browse our gallery and choose an infographic you want to customize.
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With Zanifesto’s easy to use builder, you can quickly create custom infographics
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Make your own infographic designs on you iPhone and save them as your templates, print, save and share your infographics with your friends via Facebook and Twitter
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Online infographic video creator
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Vector Graphics Software
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Included as part of Adobe Creative Cloud
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OmniGraffle can help you build anything, from a rough draft to a gorgeous presentation for executives’ eyes.
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Multi-platform Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X.
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Free, browser based vector graphics editor
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Readily available to many, PowerPoint can also be used as a simple vector graphics tool
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Lightweight, Professional digital design for Mac
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Image Editing Software
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Premier image editor included as part of Adobe Creative Cloud
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Everyone needs to edit images at some point, but not the time to learn complicated super pricey editing programs.
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Background Burner quickly removes the background from any image or photo
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GIMP is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
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Beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast, and powerful image editing app for the Mac
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Online Image Editing Site from Autodesk
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Discover, create and share interactive images and videos.
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Data Sources & Repositories
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The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities
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The U.S. Government’s open data where you will find data, tools, and resources to design data visualizations, and more
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Explore, upload your own data, create beautiful visualizations and reports in seconds – it’s free!
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The Google Public Data Explorer makes large, public-interest datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.
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The IMF publishes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators
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Features up to date world Internet Usage, Population Statistics, Travel Stats and Internet Market Research Data
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Data repository with built-in data visualization tools
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Financial Transparency and Business Intelligence - Data + Visualization
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Free accurate, dependable audience insights for over 100 million web and mobile destinations.
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Based on aggregate data collected by StatCounter on a sample exceeding 15 billion pageviews per month collected from across the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites.
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The Statistics Portal: Statistics and Studies from more than 18,000 Sources
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The United Nations Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) internet-based data service for the global user community
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Doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.
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Our analysts and contributors gather data and create thought leadership research to help businesses and people transform for the better.
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Maps & Cartography
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Add interactive map functionality to your web pages and JavaScript-based applications
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The fastest way to create google maps from your data.
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Maps for the web, made easy.
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Easily make data visualization maps with Colore, present data and ideas using colors, shapes, charts and symbols
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Use EasyMapMaker to map excel or other spreadsheet data onto a google map
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GeoCommons is the public community of GeoIQ users who are building an open repository of data and maps
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Upload your data to create a color-coded map
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Kartograph is a simple and lightweight framework for building interactive map applications without Google Maps or any other mapping service
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Mapbox makes it easy for anyone to design and publish custom maps
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Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers.
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Use iMapBuilder to Create Interactive Maps
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Cartograms or the U.S., Japan and the World.
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A collection of over 700 world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
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Presentation Tools
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Apple's premier presentation software, part of iWork for Mac OS X and iOS
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Choose from more than 4,000 customizable diagrams and download the free PowerPoint®-ready file to enhance your presentation.
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Free online presentation tool with impressive animations
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Haiku Deck, a free iPad app, is a completely new kind of presentation software designed to make your slides stunning.
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The most common presentation software in the world
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Prezi is a ZUI (Zooming User Interface) that transforms presentations from monologues into conversations
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SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations.
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Simply upload your slides as a PDF, and we’ll turn them into a beautiful online experience
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You can create simple or fully rich presentations using Visme.
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Icons
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Creating, Sharing and Celebrating the World's Visual Language
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The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is available for all to use, free of charge
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Pictofigo offers a wide range of freehand drawings ranging from concept drawings , workflow drawings to infographics drawings
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Free Stock images (check licensing details)
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All photos on Cupcake are licensed under the Creative Commons license CC0, which means that you are free to use the images without any costs.
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Every month they ship beautiful photos to your inbox.
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Free to use these hi-res photos for your landing pages, blog posts & designs.
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All images can be used for free. You may use them for commercial and non-commercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the artist or Fancycrave, although it is appreciated when possible
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FoodiesFeed is a resource of free realistic food images in high resolution and free digital goods related to food. These all are fully available to download for your blog posts, articles, websites, templates, mobile apps, backgrounds or just any kind of d
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Site where creative people can exchange their photos for inspiration or work. Owned by Getty Images
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Photos come with royalty-free license, Use for personal or commercial purposes Use for your blog posts and other publications Use in your themes, templates you sell
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Free high-resolution pictures by Ryan McGuire you can use on your personal and commercial projects.
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A curated collection of free web design resources, all for commercial use.
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Stock photos for creative professionals, free to use for personal and commercial projects
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free pics. do anything (CC0). make magic.
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Photos for business or personal use in high resolution for free. CC0
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Images from Karolina are free to use for personal and commercial purposes
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Free High-resolution photos. No copyright restrictions. Images for personal and commercial use. All images are donated to the public domain.
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Photographs available free for the use in creative projects, but does ask that photographers or artists are credited when using their free stock images as they aren’t in the public domain.
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All the photos and raw files on Negative Space are distributed under the CC0 creative commons license. That means that you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission or give attribution.
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Vintage photos from the public archives. Free of known copyright restrictions. Recapturing history.
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All photos on Pexels are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, completely free to be used for any legal purpose.
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Totally free photos for your commercial and personal works
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Free hi-resolution photos. Use them however you like. CC0
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All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.
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Free images with a focus on images including people
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Search thousands of high quality free images and footage videos with CC0 license...
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You can use any of the rawpixel free images that you download from rawpixel.com for personal and commercial purposes. However, the image copyright is still the property of rawpixel, so you cannot resell, redistribute or claim the image as your own.
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Free HD images for your web and design projects.
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Free Stock Photos and Videos for commercial use.
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Free photos for startups, bloggers, publishers, websites, designers, developers, creators, & everyone else.
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All photos on StockSnap fall under the Creative Commons CC0 license. That means you can copy, modify, distribute any photo on the site, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission!
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All stock photos, images, illustrations and textures are 100% free.
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The Superfamous Images are available under the conditions of a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. This means that you can use the work for your own purposes as long as credit is provided.
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All photos are listed under cc0. That means you can do whatever you want with them.
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All photos published on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer
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A database of 32,861,268 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute
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Most of the files are free to download and, depending on the license, free to use in your projects
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Infographic Resume Tools
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Enhancv helps you create performance-based resumes that unveil the real person behind them
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Instantly create your own interactive on-line CV from your WORD/PDF document
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Match your resume templates and customize graphs, colors, fonts, formats, etc.
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Kinzaa lets you build visually stunning infographic resumes.
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A résumé is much like a puzzle. A lot of information that has to come together to create an image. It may be difficult to arrange the pieces, however, we can help you find the ones that match.
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PaanGO’s resume builder provides an easy way to create an effective professional resume / CV
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Don’t just write it; demonstrate it with your own PictoCV. You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
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ResumUP is a powerful tool to define, plan and grow your career.
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Re.vu makes it simple and fast for anyone to create an original and compelling visual resume.
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Make your beautiful graphical CV or resume, pick from professionally designed layouts and enter your own information.
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Resume design site that includes some minimal data visualization pieces
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Easily create professional resumes, online portfolios and personal landing pages
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Vizualize your resume in one click.
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Color Pickers & Palettes
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Turn any image into a color theme, pattern, unique brush, Look, or vector graphic that you can use in your creative projects on desktop and mobile devices.
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Color Wheel to generate palettes or use an image you upload (formerly Adobe Kuler)
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Color advice for catography
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Explore creative color options for your design project
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Calculate the exact color profiles for a multi-step gradient
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Ever wanted to grab the dominant color or color palette from an image?
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Color meanings and implications across cultures
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Built off Gregor Aisch's article and color conversion library chroma.js
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The Colour Contrast Analyser (CCA) helps you determine the legibility of text and the contrast of visual elements, such as graphical controls and visual indicators.
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Share Your Color Ideas & Inspiration.
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Grab the color palette from an image.
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Build a color palette from an online image using the URL
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HCL Color gradient profile calculation
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An interactive online tool which allows everyone to create effective color maps and integrate them in their personal workflow
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Use the online color picker to select a color from any image and get the html Color Code of this pixel. Also you get the HEX value, RGB value and HSV value.
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Colors for data scientists. Generate and refine palettes of optimally distinct colors.
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Calculate LCH color profiles
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Color Scheme Designer
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Generate a color palette from an image you uplaod
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Interactive color picker interface
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With a crowd-sourced data-set, the ultimate goal is to answer questions like: What is the most common colour/s or hue/s on the web? Do certain industries prefer certain colours over others? What colours are generally found together?
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Interactive color picker specifically for choosing colors for data visualizations
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A search engine for colors
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Mind Mapping Tools
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FreeMind is a premier free, open source mind-mapping software app written in Java (cross platform)
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MindMeister is the market-leading collaborative online mind mapping software solution.
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Free, open source mind mapping with paid Pro version available
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Produce beautiful notes, quickly and easily. Share them with friends and colleagues to enhance your ideas collaboratively. All for free!
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With freeDatamap you can build, aggregate and index a mindmap of data and place decision makers at the very center of the information.
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MindNode makes mind mapping easy on iPhone, iPad and Mac
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Online mind mapping tool, free and paid accounts
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A free collaborative browser-based online mind mapping tool.
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Create mind maps online, store it on the cloud and can collaborate with your friends
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Professional multi-platform compatible mind mapping software
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Popplet is a tool for the iPad and web to capture and organize your ideas.
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Free online mind mapping editor for individuals and business
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Color Blindness Simulators
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A tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits
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Color blindness tests, tools, facts, news and a lot more
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Helps you determine the legibility of text and the contrast of visual elements, such as graphical controls and visual indicators.
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Color Oracle is a free color blindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux
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Reveal how your images may appear to users with a variety of colour blindness conditions
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You can either run on your own image files or on a web page to show you what they look like to someone who is color blind
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