Interactive Inforgraphics and Venngage

This week I decided to make a new infographic on coffee using a new program, Venngage. The interface is reminiscent of Canva. I enjoyed making the infographic as there were a variety of options to choose from. The charts feature is superior to Canva and Piktochart. It offers a larger variety of options including word clouds, icon percentage charts, tree maps, and cloud bubbles. Also, these charts are considerably customizable and interactive.  There were plentiful icons to choose from and even maps that can be added. Venngage, however, only provides limited image, image frames, and text options. Besides this major downside, it was still relatively easy to make a full fledged free infographic.  Apparently only premium members can download their work. Therefore, I am only able to show the infographic I made below because I used my snipping tool.



I used 3 separate colored panels at an attempt at storytelling. However, I am unsure if I did it correctly. An interactive infographic would further engage the reader. In order to do this some additions could be, a map that can zoom in on countries, providing details when clicked. Additionally, with each country clicked, the coffee bean could change percentages corresponding to which type of bean Arabic or Robusta is grown there. It would be pretty cool if the image frames could hold multiple pictures that would rotate almost like a GIF. Most of the charts in Venngage are interactive. They can be clicked and unclicked to allow micro-comparisons. This makes the digital inforgraphic experience more rich.