Grace Dobush at HOW Interactive Design is on a campaign to stop the madness. In her post, Quit it With All the Infographics Already, she points out several good reasons to think before inking an infographic, including:
- Most infographics aren’t accessible for the visually impaired.
- Most infographics aren’t search-engine optimized.
- Those super-long infographics are practically useless on a mobile device.
- Of all online infographics, 89% contain statistics of dubious veracity. (Err, percentage is madeup, which is sort of her point.)
- Many infographics are just plain bad.