Thursday, December 12, 2013

Too dense? But original: 36 rules on social media

I am a huge fan of informal infographics which still tell a clear message. Here is a quite interesting one done by Fastcompany.com, a leading media brand with focus on technology and design.

Fastcompany asked some of the most knowledgeabel persons of social media about their best practices on social media, took the best 36 and created this infohraphic.

It is hard to argue, that the infographic is light - there is a lot of text in the infographic which makes it very dense - almost too dense.

But it is still fairly okay to follow a path in the infographic: The designer has made arrows for you to follow. They fit the "theme" (with different fonts and colours) pretty well.

Also: Even though the graphic seems quite dense, there are clear grids to be seen in the infographic: I wonder how difficult it would have been to read it, if the boxes were put in at random.

The different font types makes the infographic informal.

2 comments:

  1. I love the contrast between rules, but I think it's too dense and probably not as easy as it could be to read them.
    But it is really attractive !

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    1. Hi Julia. I agree that it is a very dense infographic with the amount of text. But, naturally, when you want to explain many rules, you of course require some text.

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