{"id":19,"date":"2012-07-24T11:40:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2013-03-15T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:45:22","slug":"what-is-infographics-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/what-is-infographics-design\/","title":{"rendered":"How does an infographics designer work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An infographics designer creates a visual presentation of information so people can use it effectively &#151; the right visuals communicate more clearly than text alone. The designer usually:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>collaborates with content experts or does research to get the information,<\/li>\n<li>analyzes the information to reduce unnecessary detail and define key points,<\/li>\n<li>visualizes how to present the information graphically,<\/li>\n<li>writes or edits the annotations, and<\/li>\n<li>renders the image, using design principles to encourage cognitive and emotional engagement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The process of information design obviously requires a combination of skills:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Left brained&#8221; skills of analysis, synthesis, simplification, and writing.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Right brained&#8221; skills of composition, color choice, and application of other design principles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Information designers&#8217; goals are similar to the goals of user experience design for interactive media. The focus is firmly on the users or viewers and how to create something in their minds &#8212; in this case, comprehension. When possible, an information design should be tested with real viewers to make sure that it&#8217;s readily understood and pleasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An infographics designer creates a visual presentation of information so people can use it effectively &#151; the right visuals communicate more clearly than text alone. The designer usually: collaborates with content experts or does research to get the information, analyzes the information to reduce unnecessary detail and define key points, visualizes how to present the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explanagraphics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}