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3 Feb
Free download: Infographic Vector Kit
Freebies, Infographics, Vectors
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We have a fantastic freebie to download today from Pixeden, a one stop place for great tools for the modern design.
Released first and exclusively on WDD, it’s an infographic vector kit, with the most used elements that you may need for your infographic designs.
Included in this set is a world map, gender elements, as well as multiple pie and bar charts. You can easily combine and modify all the elements to create a distinctive infographic.
The elements in the kit can be used for personal and commercial purposes. The file cannot be redistributed or sold in any shape or form.
The file is available for free for all Webdesigner Depot and Mighty Deals subscribers. Simply enter your email address below to download it. See the full preview after the jump….. Enjoy! Read more
18 Jan
Stop American Censorship — a campaign from Fight for the Future
Infographics, Internet, News
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Two bills currently making their way through the United States Congress—SOPA and PIPA—threaten freedom of expression and security online, not to mention the American economy (and economies of countries directly tied to the U.S.).
In protest of these two incredibly dangerous and damaging bills, large portions of the internet will voluntarily blackout in whole or in part on Wednesday, January 18th. Among them are Wikipedia, Mozilla, and Tumblr.
If you’re a U.S. resident, be sure to educate yourself about the bills, their potential effects, and what you can do to stop them from passing. Call your Congressional representatives or send them emails telling them you don’t support SOPA or PIPA. Participate in the blackout, and support other sites that are participating. And most important of all—spread the word!
Check out the infographic below for even more information, and then visit the Stop American Censorship website to get involved. Read more
22 Dec
Infographic: the best education websites by the numbers
Infographics, Social Media, Websites
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Surprising as it may sound, colleges and universities seem to have finally figured out social media. Long berated for giving only the most modest efforts at developing an online presence, higher education is, at long last, taking the Internet seriously.
As a higher and higher percentage of high school students spend more time online (and on social media in particular), colleges have made the realization that they stand a far better chance of attracting new applicants if they come visit them on their own turf.
The big social media sites have all become darlings of academia, and students seem not to mind one bit—the most successful schools rack up thousands of Twitter followers, hundreds of thousands of Facebook likes, and millions of views on YouTube, likely in large part from current, prospective, and former students.
And though a great many academies remain dinosaurs of Web 1.0, a few prestigious institutions have truly evolved into social media mammoths.
This Infographic from Best Education Sites breaks down the academic web space with some hard numbers, calling out the schools that are doing the web better than anyone else. Read more
21 Oct
The 20 Most Popular Design Tools and their Users
Design, Infographics, Software
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Ever wondered which are the most popular design tools and their number of users? We did too!
So we partnered with Mostash to create an exclusive infographic depicting the 20 most popular design tools, calculated using a ‘magic’ formula based on the results taken from three different popularity ranking websites.
We used the stats from Software Informer, Wakoopa and iUseThis. For the number of tweets per minute, that you’ll see below, we used the wonderful Twitter Tussle.
The artwork was done by Ricardo Cavolo (all credits appear at the bottom).
Surprised by the results? Some tools that we were expecting to see in the top 20 are actually way down below…
To view the infographic at a larger resolution, simply click on the image below. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think… Read more
20 Oct
30 Superb Examples of Infographic Maps
Data Visualization, Design, Infographics
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As you search the web you’ll come across a wide range of interactive and graphical maps.
Deciding when, where and how to integrate or display a map on your site is the first step, the second should be what technology and illustrations to use.
If you’re all about interaction, JQuery, Ajax, or Flash are all effective technologies that hold their own ground.
Map illustrations are a dime a dozen however, a strong and balanced display of graphics, information, and colors is what makes an infographic stand out and reach its target audience effectively.
As designers, we’re constantly searching for ways to improve and style our designs, this is exactly what the following 30 infographics and sites display below; the breaking of rules. Read more
22 Jun
25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers
Data Visualization, Infographics, Web Designers
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Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information.
Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means.
Below are more than 25 infographics that can be useful to web designers.
Some are incredibly practical, some provide information that might be of interest to designers and some just present data that might be interesting to those who design websites all day.
If you know of any good ones that we may have missed, please add them in the comments section below. Read more