We have searched the web to uncover the most informative and inspiring infographics, to show you just how it should be done.
Infographics are a great way to turn some boring data into an informative beautiful graphic, which is much easier for reader to digest. We reveal the 24 best infographics that can be useful to web designers. Some are useful tips and tricks and some provide web design trends and other interesting information you ought to know.
Here you’ll find infographics about responsive design, evolution of Photoshop, time management, how to start web design project, mixing different typefaces, psychology of color, design trends and much more. Click on the images to see each infographic in the full size.
1. 2014 Visual Trends
Every creative wants to make something original that stands out. However, knowing which visual themes and tools are trending then putting your own spin on them is a great way to keep your work fresh, check out these top visual trends to look out for in 2014.
Source: iStock
2. Shutterstock’s Global Design Trends 2014
Shutterstock has published its third annual global design trends infographic. In the new edition, Shutterstock uses data from over 350 million all-time image downloads to reveal recent and emerging visual trends from around the world.
Source: Shutterstock
3. 26 Things to Note Before You Develop a Website
This infographic from Pixaal showing the basic things to note before you develop a brand new website. Pixaal has summarized it all to 26 things with trendy minimal flat design and colorful grid layout that are really crucial to develop a website.
Source: Pixaal
4. The Evolution of Web Design
Can you believe that the first published website is already 23 years old? Web design has come a long way since the first website was published by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. This infographic is an overview at the evolutionary story of web design, which is ironically still in its initial stages.
Source: Kissmetrics
5. The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop
The latest edition of Photoshop (Photoshop CS6) isn’t included on this infographic. However, it’s still a spectacular design.
Source: TechKing
6. Responsive Web Design Interactive Infographic
This interactive infographic provides useful resources, tutorials, plugins, tools, a definition of popular terms related to responsive web design, and more.
Source: TemplateMonster
7. Anatomy of the Perfect Banner Ad
For every beautiful banner ad there is usually one that breaks all the rules of good design and intelligent advertising. Study the banners Below BuySellAds analyze all the crucial parts of that perfect banner ad.
Source: BuySellAds
8. All You Need To Know About Web Designers
If you need to know about web workers from a single glance, the below infographic distributes age, gender, job title, geographic location, education, charge per hour rate or probably all you need to know about web designers.
Source: TechKing
9. Past, Present, and Future of Web Design
In the following infographic, bluehost presenting an overview on the past, present, and future of web design. They will provide the history of web design, including information about the first published website, introduction of CSS, the creation and implementation of HTML and flash-based websites. Additionally go through a number of trends associated with present-day web design like mobile websites, responsive web design and hi-res displays. Finally, they will shed light on the future of web design and how new technology will alter current trends.
Source: Bluehost
10. Ultimate HTML5 Cheatsheat
TechKing designed a truly awesome cheat sheet for HTML 5. It shows you the HTML tags of new, existing and old features. If you wonder about anything at any time, you can just bust this thing out instead of having to look through a thousand pages in books trying to find what you need.
Source: TechKing
11. How Colors Affect Conversions
Color has a powerful psychological influence on the human brain. This infographic helps to learn how others have harnessed it and how you can do the same.
Source: Kissmetrics
12. Bootstrap vs. Foundation
If you want to make planning a new web design project, having a effective framework is help you create a fully-responsive and modern site outline. A framework is a collection of tools for creating websites and mobile applications. Framework packages include files and folders of standardized code such as HTML, CSS, etc. as a basis to start building a site. Because many websites have a similar structure — a framework makes it so that developers don’t have to start from scratch with coding, saving time and effort. Which is the best responsive framework? This Infographic makes a detailed comparison of the Bootstrap and Foundation. Both frameworks are responsive and can lead to beautiful websites.
Source: designmodo
13. The Art of Color Coordination
Good color picks should never be neglected in web design. At the same time, a bad color combination can have the same negative effect as poor copy and slow load times. In this infographic, Kissmetrics will briefly discuss color coordination and how you can use this to your advantage when designing your site.
Source: Kissmetrics
14. How to Start a Web Design Project
You are not just a designer. Even if you are a project manager, and offers a great customer service experience is essential for winning over your clients repeat business. So you are needed to be on target from day one. The following infographic presents every stage of the web design process from start to finish.
Source: designmodo
15. Waste Time at Work Infographic
I would like to express my own opinion at this point because most of the companies wasting time in the name of the meeting, without the need. Please avoid this type of unnecessary meetings and improve your productivity. The following infographic pointing that how much time you are wasting in email, pointless meetings and constant interruptions.
Source: Atlassian
16. The Art of Mixing Typefaces Google Fonts Edition
FastPrint has created a typography ‘cheat sheet’ for Google Fonts, presents in an infographic format below. This infographic contains twenty of the most popular typefaces from Google Fonts cross-referenced to decipher which typeface combinations great, unlikely or avoid. There are 400 unique typeface combinations in total.
Source: FastPrint
17. The ROI of Great Web Design
The following infographic explains about the importance of ROI (return on investment) for business. If you aren’t making money as a result of a certain thing, then you are likely losing money accordingly of it. It is possible of you haven’t considered the implications of how this applies to your overall website design.
Source: HostGator
18. The Psychology of Color – Must See for Web Designers
When you go to design your next website pay special attention to your color choices and what they actually mean. To help you out with that techking has created this beautiful infographic.
Source: TechKing
19. Serif vs Sans: The Final Battle
Here is a neat infographic that explains the differences between serif and sans serif fonts. You will learn when to use one over the other as well as examples and web usages.
Source: Urbanfonts
20. The 10 Commandments of Typography
The following infographic displays the “10 Commandments of Typography” that could be followed as quite the basics when it comes to selecting fonts. However, typography is an art and art is supposed to be subjective with minimal parameters. The rules can still be used in order to save time and too much experimentation.
Source: Designmantic
21. 10 Tips for Effective Visual Communication
The infographic was created by Column Five, these 10 tips for designing effective visual communication will help ensure your visual content is beautiful and engaging.
Source: Column Five
22. The Psychology of Color: A Color Guide for Designers
Color is an essential factor to the world of advertising, web and graphic design. Not only that it brings in depth and emphasis to a design but it also gives the feel and the mood of a design. This infographic illustrates about the Psychology of Color.
Source: RIPT
23. How to Be More Creative
This infographic was created by WhoIsHostingThis. It’s a good resource on how to bring back your creative self. The infographic illustrates five simple steps on how to be more creative. Additionally, tools and techniques you might want to give a try.
Source: WhoIsHostingThis
24. The History of Web Design
