Benefits of Using Infographics

■International Communication

Using infographics enables you to share information smoothly and swiftly, even with those who don’t speak the same language as you do. As you already know, the ability to communicate with foreign people is becoming increasingly more important in enterprises. In order to express your opinion in an international workplace, learning to use visual communication tools like infographics is a necessity.

Let's say that you were talking with a person whose native language was different from yours. It would be very difficult to verbally explain complex information like a floor plan of a house unless infographics are used.

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■Organize Your Thoughts

Have you ever been in a situation where you had to write a paper in school but you couldn’t arrange your thoughts into sentences? Learning an infographics method called mindmapping can help you jot down your thoughts and organize them. Furthermore, it can help you come up with new ideas.

We created numerous mindmaps in order to decide the layout of this website and organize its contents. You can become a master in mindmapping too, and use it for your own benefit.

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■Simplify Complex Information

Thanks to mathematician Descartes
for inventing a method to visualize equations into graphs, we are now able to conceive equations as geometric figures. Equations and graphs are related to each other in many ways. For example, an intersection in a graph corresponds to the solution of simultaneous equations.
It can be said that a graph is an infographic method specialized for mathematics.

Other forms in infographics like charts and diagrams are utilized to simplify information in schools and enterprises. Many types of presentation software come equipped with a function to create these kinds of infographics.

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■Obtain Information in a Fun Way

Infographics rely more on visualizations than on words to tell a message or a fact, so they can become a fun way to learn new things. Can you imagine learning physics with nothing but plain text? It would be nearly impossible to solve a physics problem without a visual representation.
An encyclopedia is another good example that utilizes infographics to make readers want to know about a certain topic. Diagrams and illustrations are fun to look at, and you can keep on reading for hours.