25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers

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June 22, 2009

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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