My Infographic design principles

This week, Dr. Appelman came to our class and gave us a very inspiring speech on visual design. He said that "everything is designed with a frame. You as a designer is to decide what is in the frame". This is a great inspiration to me, reminding me to look at the big picture first instead of jumping into the details right away. Fonts, color, spatial arrangements etc. are all details that should be concerned only after you have developed your big picture based on your central concept. Dr. G and Dr. L's lecture on Infographic later on supported this concept. We started from discussing what infographic is and what the objectives for designing an infographic are.  Several infographic examples are introduced based on how they hold onto their central idea while developing the whole picture. No matter  you are organizing your information through "ask question", "tell a story" or "make a comparison", as long as you keep the central concept in mind as the starting point for your design, you will be able to create a successful infographic. So, keep in mind:

1. Look into the essence of your topic first, 
2. and then look at the components you may have in the frame,
3.  then you decide how you are going to develop/organize/ create your picture. 

Example 1:

This Infographic has a clear central idea and has organized its information according to its central theme. It is really easy for the audience to follow his design logic.

Example 2:

This Infographic is also well-organized. The curvy path indicates the steps we should follow to build up our credit score, which I find to be a very clever and efficient way organize this topic.

Example 3:

This Infographic fails to catch the essence of the topic first. The information provided below does not support the argument the designer set as the topic.After reading the Infographic, I still don't understand why there's a little geek in all of us.