For my infographics, I decided to look up designs that have a pathway involved in the layout, as our research on the social isolation of youth and its attribution to adulthood is a continuing cyclical pathway. “The Carbon Budget” design is a good design as it discusses the importance of carbon and how it affects our warming patterns, and our group could find a template based off of this design as we want to have a pathway example moving through our infographic. This depiction represents a timeline as well. It is also very simplified as far as content, as it has little snippets of information at each point in the path. I like how the end of the pathway opens it up as a call for action, which is also something we want to discuss in our presentation. One of our sources is a source that talks about the importance of therapy and behavioral research to prevent inadequate adult behavior in group settings as a result of childhood social isolation; and I believe that a path design would be the best way to go for our project and presentation. This infographic is not only good on design alone, but the information presented on the actual piece seems to be accurate, and the image also has its sources listed in the paragraph at the top before the infographic is actually presented. Our infographic doesn’t necessarily have to encompass the problems of carbon usage, but this example still serves as a good design due to the way it is structured and the consistency of accurate content.

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What I see as a bad infographic is one that has inaccurate information. This is seen directly in the infographic I selected below. This image is discussing the way baby boomers describe themselves, and the information makes it seem to the reader that there was a sample size of 243%, even though the max it can be is 100%. Also, the design is flawed as the 61% ‘willing to learn’ category looks larger than the 78% ‘people-savvy’ category on the image of the person. If they had the information add up to 243%, those who made this infographic should have stated that the people that were researched could choose more than one choice, thus the reason why the percentages add up to 243%, instead of just leaving it as is. Apparently, this infographic had been used to visualize the results of a survey. Instead of this depiction, there should have just been multiple charts, as that would have been a better way to utilize the data. I mean, come on, the title of ‘How Baby Boomers Describe Themselves’ isn’t even centered; and why is ‘Baby Boomers’ bolded? This stylized method of representing this data visually is just an eyesore. is In addition to that, the little side notes under the ‘tech-savvy’ and the ‘creative’ just seem sporadically placed just doesn’t look right when looking at this image. I deemed this to be a bad infographic due to the inaccurate information, poor design flaws, impotent style, and senseless simplicity.

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