Webdesigner Depot » Infographics http://www.webdesignerdepot.com Web Design Resources and Tutorials Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:30:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 30 Superb Examples of Infographic Mapshttp://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/30-superb-examples-of-infographic-maps/ http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/30-superb-examples-of-infographic-maps/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:55:32 +0000 Walter http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/?p=12965 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.

Sites with Interactive Maps


Illustrative Infographics


Compiled exclusively for WDD by Liz Fulghum.

Did we miss any great examples? Please post them in the comments’ area below…



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]]> http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/30-superb-examples-of-infographic-maps/feed/ 42 25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designershttp://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/25-useful-infographics-for-web-designers/ http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/25-useful-infographics-for-web-designers/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:08:53 +0000 Walter http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/?p=10102 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.

1. Web Trend Map 4


2. Period Table of Typefaces


3. Global Internet Traffic Map


4. Classifying Experiences


5. Flickr User Model


6. The Browser Wars


7. A Month of Spam


8. The Life of an Article on the Web


9. Online Communities Map


10. Map of the World 2.0 Mosaic


11. The Internet’s Undersea World


12. Search Engine Spider Traps

13. Google PageRank Explained

14. Building a Company with Social Media

15. SEO Check List

16. The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits—to You


17. Software Wars


18. Who Participates Online


19. What 16 Million Colors Looks Like


20. Periodic Table of Visualization Methods


21. Periodic Table of the Internet


22. Country Codes of the World

23. Apple’s Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses


24. Infoporn: The Cost of Living on the Bleeding Edge of Technology


25. Map of All Yahoo! APIs and Services


26. Digital Media Weights and Measures


27. Global Color Usage with Respect to Time and Location / 2009 / SML + Adobe Kuler Pulse


28. Facebook vs. Twitter



Do you feel infographics are effective to display information? Please share with us any other infographics that can be of interest to web designers.



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