Introduction:

The bit I actually enjoyed was watching a dozen marketers design their first Infographic. They were awesome: creative, insightful and surprisingly good looking. It got me thinking: should we, an original agency that does this kind of thing for a living, really be teaching our clients the thanks to do it? How can we justify our fees if anyone can produce something similar, for free, themselves? Fortunately, my fears were allayed quickly, as Chris stepped up and showed them one he’d prepared earlier. A chronic ‘Ooooohhhhh…’ went round the room. His years of coaching, technical know-how and inventive thinking blew them away. So now that I don’t fear this democratised creativity, I feel entirely comfortable sharing my opinion on the DIY design tools we played within preparation for the workshop.

Visage

Visage was the first ‘content creation’ site I discovered on in my search around for design templates and infographic. It’s built by a Californian agency that produces lovely datav is (the visual representation of data) work themselves and who share good intel through their emails and white papers. Visage is made primarily for social media posts, so if you would like to style your own tweet-sized graphics otherwise you would like some attractive charts or tables that look better than Excel, then this site will serve you well.

PhotoADKing

PhotoADKing is that the Graphic Designer Software for any media with best graphic design tool for your marketing, advertising, and printing services. 10000+ stunning design templates for different platforms and marketing ideas for little business. Graphic PhotoADKing also has social media templates like Instagram Post Template, Instagram Post Creator, other social media templates with easy-to-use features for everyone. This might help in saving huge amount of money in future, which is why it stands out as the most effective tool among others.

Canva

Canva is analogous to Visage but it’s made in Sydney and has way more variety so we’re bound to prefer it more! Canva has many templates to choose on from, plus you’ll easily resize the graphic to fit your need. I produced my LinkedIn background wall to the right dimensions in seconds, instead of bugging our studio to do to thereto it on behalf of me. In truth, most of their templates are for personal or consumer purposes, and which I did have some trouble saving and downloading my designs during my first session, but overall it absolutely was rather fun.

Piktochart

Piktochart is that the applying we used during our workshop. For an audience of corporate communicators it had the proper mixture of business-related templates, from reports and infographics to online presentations. Our group of marketers got stuck in quickly which all of them found a template to suit the wire-frames they’d sketched. In the Pro version there are more lovely templates, rather like the one above, plus you’ll download at print quality if you would like to use them offline. So if you’re a business one that needs something designed fast and cheap and you don’t have a designer to the touch, Piktochart seems best-in-class to me.

Adobe CC

Creative Cloud is a compilation of 20+ desktop, PC and Mobile Applications and services for photography, design, video, web, UX and more. Now you can take your ideas to new places with Photoshop on the iPad, draw and paint with Adobe Fresco and design for 3D and AR. Adobe Creative Cloud gives you the world’s best creative apps and services so you can make anything you can imagine, wherever you’re inspired. This service will help you provide the better result and effective work for your projects.

Tableau

Tableau is a visual analytics platform transforming the way we use data to solve problems – empowering people and organizations to make the most of their data. Tableau disrupted business intelligence with intuitive, visual analytics for everyone. This data visualization will help you to get accurate results and also the analytics are intended to work as per algorithmic function.

Specialist Apps

As you’d expect, there are many niche applications to be found at the highest of your Google search, possess some radical, interactive chart types if you’d wish to embed some complex datavis into your website. Timeline JS, because the name suggests, could also be a tool for embedding timelines into your website, a task I’m sure most communications teams are asked to complete at some point. Similarly, Story map JS enables you to plot your stories on a Google Map, which again is great if you’d prefer to signify off your company facilities or a physical journey online. There are many other mapping, graphing and visualization tools, so my advice here is to Google your needs and let the appliance come to you.

Business Intelligence Tools

At the alternative end of the scale, if you’re looking to handle large, complex or unstructured datasets, then you’ll probably be entering the jargon-heavy world of business intelligence (BI) tools. Again there are heaps to decide on from, as detailed during this ironic scatter graph from Gartner (the irony being that their data visualization about leading data visualization tools is an awful piece of information visualization).

From what I hear around the corporate locker rooms, Tableau is that foremost generally adopted and easiest to use by people who don’t have an analytical background, but investment decisions during this realm are often driven by your existing IT stack and also the way well the tools work together.

In conclusion, it’s not surprising that designers get nervous about the arrival of tools rather like the Grid, which uses AI to style your website for you, but the fact is that robots won’t remove our creative jobs. Not just yet.

To me, it’s barely like owning a guitar. It’d look great hanging on my wall, or feel nice in my hands, which I actually would adore one for my birthday, but owning a decent guitar doesn’t mean I can make great music.