The Process of Designing an Infographic

The Process of Designing an Infographic is an interactive design that outlines my own infographic design process. My data visualization and infographics design company, InfoNewt, uses this process when designing infographics for clients, and I teach this process in my workshops and classes. The team at Visme.co created an interactive infographic version of it using the Visme design platform. Visme.co is a fantastic online design platform for infographics, presentations, reports and more.

Most of my designs follow this 5-step process:

1. Data Research - Start with the data. What's the insight or story?
2. Wireframe - Wireframe your story before you start any design work 
3. Design Concepts - Experiment with design ideas by creating rough concepts that visualize your data in a handful of different ways
4. Iterate - Choose one design direction or combine a few different ideas from your concepts.
5. Finalize - The final step is to finalize your design with the appropriate Copyright or Creative Commons license, and export the final design to a few different file formats as necessary. 

One of the advantages of using Visme as the platform to design your infographic is that you can create interactive elements in your design. In this case, you can see the original interactive version on the Visme site, that includes additional information when you mouse over each process step. This is built in Javascript, and anyone can share the interactive version by using the embed code on their own website.

You can embed the interactive infographic on your own site by using this HTML code:

<script src='//my.visme.co/visme.js'></script> <div class='visme_d' data-url='the-process-of-designing-an-infographic-d25a0c' data-w='800' data-h='2982'></div>

Comments

[Barbara Paciotti]

Thank you, Randy, for sharing this insight into your design process.

I got your book a few weeks ago & am thoroughly enjoying it. Even better, my husband stumbled across it & now he is looking through it, too. If you knew my hubby you'd realize what a compliment this is!

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