How can we define an infographic? According to dictionary.com, an infographic is a visual representation of data which can be in the form of a chart, graph, or other image. An infographic should be with minimal text and is meant to be easily understood. I chose the Pew Research Center's Internet article titled: Tech Adoption Climbs Among Older Adults for my infographic. I used data from a survey that represents a percentage of U.S. adults who say they used certain technologies. The graph shows gains among adults 65 and older using technologies such as internet, home broadband, smartphones, tablets, and social media. I explored with three different infographics which included the web apps Piktochart, Infogram, and Easelly,
Piktochart is a site that is free and is for creating infographics. The first thing I noticed, was that this site does not provide you with as many choices as Easelly. It has very limited amount of free templates to choose from. But there are more templates available for an upgrade. You can change the color or texture of the background on the template. It also allows you to double click on the blocks to change your text and font. You can change the height, width and location of the blocks and even lets you clone a block. You can click and drag images to wherever you want on the template. It allows you to change the color on the images that are one color but will not allow you to change the color on multicolor images. You can also upload your images from your computer. I found it easy to use but just couldn't find the right free template for my infographic.
Infogr.am is another free site for creating infographics. Like the other websites this one also provides free templates but with a more limited amount. It has fewer images and icons than the others. It allows you to embed videos from You Tube. When you click on the block it automatically provides you with options on the side that allow for deleting, duplicating, and bringing the text to the front or back. Out of all the sites, I found this one to be the most unappealing.
Easelly is a site where anyone can create an infographic to express their ideas or information visually and appealing. It is very user friendly. There are plenty of templates to choose from. I found an appropriate template for the information of the article I chose. It also had a great variety of images or objects. I was able to change the font, color, and text size and it allowed me to drag objects form one place to another. I really enjoyed exploring with Easelly. Out of all the apps I found Easelly to be the simplest one to use for my infographic.
I really enjoyed navigating through the different web apps of Piktograph, Infogram, and Easelly. But of all the three I chose Easely for because I found it to be the simplest and with more options to create my infographic.
The following is a link of an infographic I created using Easelly.
https://www.easel.ly/create?id=https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/2717142/1508529197&key=pri
Sources
Anderson, M., & Perrin, A. (2017, May 17). Tech Adoption Climbs Among Older Adults. Retrieved October 20, 2017, from http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/05/17/tech-adoption-climbs-among-older-adults/
Create Easy Infographics, Reports, Presentations | Piktochart. (n.d.). Retrieved October 20, 2017, from https://piktochart.com/
Create infographics & online charts - Infogram. (n.d.). Retrieved October 20, 2017, from https://infogram.com/app/#/library
Create and share visual ideas using infographics. (n.d.). Retrieved October 20, 2017, from https://easel.ly/
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