An average US citizen on an average day, it says, consumes 100,500 words, whether that be email, messages on social networks, searching websites or anywhere else digitally. And as the university says we sleep for seven hours a day, in practice that means that three quarters of waking time is spent receiving information, the majority of which is electronic.BBC News - The age of information overload (via futuramb) And they say reading is dead. (via parislemon)
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.
We get a lot of e-mails about infographics to link to, but we tend not to do them if they’re not super-short and super-clear. And the really long ones we’ll crop and link. It’s because they can be visual overload. Simplify. Don’t confuse.
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