Infographics allow you to translate boring data into easy-to-understand visuals that grab the audience's attention but most people don't have the experience or time to create them. Most do-it-yourself infographic tools provide users with pre-designed templates to choose from where non-designers become frustrated by the amount of time they need to spend modifying templates to their needs.
Visme is solving this challenge by providing users with a new feature that allows them to browse through a library of pre-designed content blocks that correspond to the different sections of an infographic. This way, they can simply drag and drop content blocks onto their canvas area and apply a color scheme with one click.
Choose from dozens of ready-made blocks, including a variety of header and footer layouts, and body content blocks, such as numbered lists, timelines, and charts combined with text. Select from dozens of monochromatic color schemes which can be applied to your entire infographic with a single click.
I was going to skip getting Visme because it had too many options...
While it's great to tweak tiny details, add animations, and add interactions... I noticed that making the same graphic was 3x slower vs. GetStencil or Canva.
I'd appreciate the animations and interactions... but a piece of graphic does not get published if I'm too engrossed playing with the details.
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These pre-made blocks + new interaction flow is a game-changer!
I quickly tested Visme again after seeing this announcement and I was pleased...
Dragging and dropping the blocks is a super fast & smooth experience!
On top of that, adding theme colors in one go is a major game changer! Why? I won't have to tweak every single little element to match the colors.
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Visme with ready-made blocks is a game changer.
It's the kind of UX flow that I get from SlideBean, allowing me to just focus on the content because the app handles the design.
It's a way of thinking regarding making infographics in minutes (instead of hours).
I'd be super pumped to see this mindset implemented throughout the rest of the app in the coming months :)
@allancaeg thank you for the great reply. Agreed; the content block feature is to help reduce some of the pain points users face when creating content. And also not to forget now that you have the ability to select any group of objects and save them as a block will allow you to reuse them in other projects be it a Presentation , Infographic or whatever else you're creating.
We have number of other improvements in the works; this is one step of many to come. cheers!
@paymantaei thank you for the great product and its evolution, Payman!
Looking forward to seeing this simplicity implemented more in the app.
You already proved that Visme can create tons of great visual templates, so I'm optimistic that they'll easily turn into nice ready-made blocks.
Please keep doubling down on this direction plus adding flexibility to color templates (e.g. if I want a combination of red and dark gray palette).
This new user flow is a game-changer :)
Normally, the thought of having to create an Infographic makes we reach for the bottle of wine and resign myself to a long night ahead. Now, I'm resigned to being merry and having fun changing how I want my Infographic to be. Because it's that intuitive for a non-designer like me, I can actually make choices AND it look good! Thank you, Visme Team! π
@taratamiko You're welcome Tara. We have more improvements beyond this on the way that will further improve the process. So hang on to a couple more bottles of wine for later too :)
It's a pretty awesome tool that allows non designers to create beautiful infographics. I've used it at that time it was launched. Happy to see it in Product Hunt with new features.
@shyamantab appreciate the feedback. We've improved a lot since our initial launch and have a great set of improvements in the works later this year. stay tuned!
@tahatayyab Great question. It's actually one we hear often. I'll try to break it down in a few lines for starters:
Yes canva allows you to create infographics too; But it can be quite restrictive. If you want to create a simple Infographic; it may serve you just fine.
But the Power of Visme is that it allows you to: (check out the links for videos and more details)
- Tap into Powerful charts with ton of settings:
- Ability to import from Excel and connect to live data
http://blog.visme.co/types-of-ch...
- Create interactive maps with your own data
http://blog.visme.co/create-inte...
- A series of data widgets so you can translate figures and stats into engaging visuals in seconds:
http://blog.visme.co/visual-stat...
or create Arrays of objects:
http://blog.visme.co/pictograph-...
- Ability to animate any objects
- Ability to make any object into an actionable element (links or create pop-ups), etc..
- You can also insert Videos, Add / Record Audio.
- You can even embed from third parties.
For example you can embed Polls, Maps from Google, etc..
Imagine you are a non-profit and you create an infographic and want to at bottom of it collect donations. Well you can embed that donation for into your infographic so they don't have to leave and go elsewhere.
I could go on but I hope that gives you a bit if a picture of how Visme goes a bit further.
thanks!
Love Visme! I've been doing a lot of work on various infographic platforms and this is by far the best. SPECIAL DEAL HERE: Lifetime Access to Visme's Sumo Standard Plan for $49 http://www.appsumo.com/~Yni8d/ via @appsumo
First thanks to @kwdinc for hunting Visme for Infographics!
We're excited to be here to show you that anyone without design experience can create awesome infographics quickly and easily.
A little background: My team and I have been working religiously for the last 4+ years to bridge this wide gap that exists between people and their ability to create professional Infographics and Presentations.
The reason I started Visme was that I saw firsthand, the problem with most visual/design tools is that they require a long learning curve, OR when they're simplified enough for non-designers, they are way too restrictive so you end up with limited abilities and off-the-shelf looking content.
Visme was created to be different. It's created to give non-designers a strong starting point, and those who want to get into deeper customization enough features and flexibility to have the capacity to do so.
It's made to be simple but at same time powerful and rather than letting you create just one type of content, it allows you to create professional (and engaging) Presentations, Infographics and we're now diving into other formats.
It's used by all types of users, from educators, students and marketers in over 100 countries as well as teams from notable companies including IBM, NASA, NIH, Accenture, and Metlife to name a few who use Visme as their go to app for their visual communication needs.
We noticed one of the pain points users have is they don't have time and they want to create it fast but yet have the end result look professional.
And that's where our new content-block feature comes into play! We've been working on this for sometime and have more improvements on the way.
Today I'm very excited to announce the release of our Content-blocks feature which anyone can use to create beautiful custom Infographics and Reports in minutes Not Hours!
You can even change your entire color scheme in one click and create your own content blocks so you can re-use them in other projects so you can be more productive and create uniform content down the road.
Watch the short video in this page for a quick overview and we're here to answer any questions you may have. Looking forward to your feedback!
Thank you everyone.
Love this feature. Often times I can't find a template I want or I just want a part not all of it. I think this one will help me create my own layout fast without selecting icons/objects one at a time.
For more information on how to use content blocks, you can also go here and look at a few examples made with the new feature:
http://blog.visme.co/quick-infog...
We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Just drop us a line in the comments section!
Great to see this update from Visme making it faster to create infographics - looking forward to testing it out - personally I am hoping that mp4 and animated gif downloads are on the product updates planned in the forthcoming months too then it will make Visme even more powerful as a visual content creation tool
Great job guys. This definitely fills a need and I can't wait to play with it. My one hope is that you'll continue to provide flexibility in terms of the types of content blocks you create but limit the things that should be determined by a designer. Not an easy task but preventing us from creating Myspace looking pages would be a great approach in my mind. That's where we always run into trouble as non designers.
@larrykokoszka great input. thanks. So we give the user a great starting point (the blocks are created by our design team with the non-designer in mind); So all the user has to do is change the content to their own. But there is still flexibility in the system where you if you choose to, move things around and add your own.
One thing many non-designers struggle with is colors. So we rolled out the color scheme module with this release; You just choose from one of the color schemes on left panel and then any block , chart, map you put on stage till retain that color.
@paymantaei I played with it a bit last night...there are definitely enough guardrails there to keep us on the road. Really nice job. If I could enter my web site url and have the app pull the colors into a custom color scheme module that would be really great!
@parker_content thanks. Can you kindly send us a ticket support @ visme.co ? We don't see any other users reporting this and number signed up during same period and seem okay. thx!
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