From the course: Infographics: Planning and Wireframing
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Examining the Social Good infographic - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Infographics: Planning and Wireframing
Examining the Social Good infographic
Infographics are more than just a collection of charts thrown together on a funky background, although that's often what new designers do. In this video, we're going to walk through an infographic about charity donations that originally appeared on mashable.com, and I am going to explain the considerations that went into planning and wireframing the layout. Since Mashable is a blog, it had a dimension constraint of 640 pixels in width. There was no height constraint, so I had to take advantage of that, and build this infographic in a vertical layout. Because the dimensions of this graphic will likely require a lot of scrolling, I wanted to draw attention with a powerful statistic, and an image to draw viewers in to the rest of the graphic. As you can see from the zoomed out view, I divided the graphic into four horizontal sections, each of which had its own different way to visualize a different set of data. There is a lot of text, but all of it was positioned deliberately to convey…
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