Infographic Types and Their Uses

Infographic Types and Their Uses

• Comparison type is best used in eLearning courses.
• Photo-based/Photo-graphic type is useful when you want to show the details and steps of a complex process.
• Mixed-chart type is most useful when you have many statistics.
• International/List type is most appropriate when you want to list several items.
• Visual résumé type is excellent for highlighting differences between two similar things.
• Process type is suitable for creating brochures and explanatory posters.
• Anatomical type is ideally suited to biology, health, education, and marketing.
• Interactive type is most appropriate for making individual units of information visually interesting.
• Timeline is ideal for sharing information across multiple digital platforms and devices.

Incorrect Infographic Types and Their Uses

• How-to type is not suitable to show how something has changed over time.
• Visualized numbers type is not most useful for visualizing how-to articles and describing a procedure with multiple instructions.
• Hierarchical type is not preferred when you want to compare places and cultures via setting-centric data.
• Map/Location type is not the most appropriate for comparing the different levels with each other.
• Single chart type is not best suited for industries that are open to non-traditional résumés.
• Flowchart type does not help your audience visualize a concrete but complex set of instructions or information.