Project Update #2 | VISC 404

Since the last update, I was going in a direction that looked like an exact copy of the YouTube watch page. At the time I thought it was a good idea but after getting to a standstill, I thought of a couple ways to keep that same idea but make it feel uniform. I decided to recreate the thumbnails from the videos under the “Most viewed video” section and make them look like they were meant to be together. YouTube thumbnail purpose is to get someone’s attention to click the video, so doing this helped declutter the infographic and brought it together. I also decided to add “most popular YouTuber” which was based off the subscriber count, video views, and the audience.

I originally wanted to make this all creator based and show what it was like, number wise, to be a creator in 2012 versus 2017 but because the only numbers I could find were estimates and there is not distinct number for the amount when it comes to monetization, I decided to go down a route in showing the fact that YouTube started as people getting hundreds of thousands of subscribers and views and now people are getting millions and billions. It’s a crazy thing to think about when almost the size of a country is watching a person’s video.

Project Becker Update #1 | VISC 404

For this project we chose a topic and are going to make an infographic for it. I chose the topic of YouTube and going to focus mostly on the growth from 2012 to 2017. So far I have found a large amount of information that I have to figure out how to transfer over to the infographic. The infographic design is what I have been focusing on the most. I started with the idea of using the YouTube play button to show growth over time, but after trying to figure out how I would lay out information, it would not have worked.

I now am working towards design the infographic based on the YouTube watch page. I really like some of the older watch page designs so I have been using this for my inspiration when it comes to what the infographic will look like.

The timing counter will act as a timeline with different information added onto it between the 5 years. The side “suggested videos” area as well as the description will house information like viral videos, most viewed videos, most subscribed person for that year, etc. I feel like this layout will be a lot more successful than the one I started with.

Brainstorming Infographic Topics | VISC 404

New Tech in 2017

The idea for this topic would be to take a look at and gather every technology product that was released in the year of 2017. I would be able to categorize them into different subcategories for what their use is as well as how popular they are and how many people bought them and use them on a daily basis. I could also show the variations of price range. The data I would seek out would be looking at which companies released items and how many people purchased those and how many still use them. This topic is meaningful because there are many different new products that are released in the tech world each year and a way to combine them all and see which is still being used towards the end of the year would give a good idea of what will be popular and grow in the future.

YouTube’s 5 Year Change

This idea is one that I have been wanting to look into for a long time now. YouTube the website and social media platform has grown a huge amount since the first time I used it as a creator in 2009 to now in 2017. Going back five years from now would be at the very beginning of the huge incline of popularity for not only people watching videos but also people making their own videos and posting them to the website. The sub topics I would focus on would be growth in viewers, growth in content creators, and growth in audience. The types of data I would seek out for would be looking at how a creator would upload a video in 2012 and how fast it would get to a certain amount of views compared to 2017 (and the years leading up to it). I would also look for the amount of people who actually post videos to the website comparing the 5 years and see what kind of growth there was and how fast it changed. The topic is meaningful for the idea that the timeline from 2012 to now in 2017 was the start of something that is going to change the future and people’s lives for years to come. Taking this information and outputting it in a creative way would be a positive towards looking forward at what’s to come.

Social Media Websites

The idea for this would be to take a time period (probably the 5 year period i mentioned for the last one from 2012 to 2017) and see what kinds of social media websites were relevant and popular from year to year and see which ones grew and see which ones fizzled out and disappeared. The data I would look for would be looking at the traffic to popular websites and see how they grew or declined each year in the timeframe. Going off the traffic of the websites would get an idea as to where the sites peaked or started to grow. This is meaningful because there are many websites that were at one point a huge hit with many people that eventually went away and disappeared and taking that information would be a way for future social medias to see what went wrong in the past so they don’t make the same mistake in the future.  

After writing the three of these topic descriptions, I really want to lean towards the YouTube idea because I feel like there is something there for me to get out of it. Since I know a lot about the topic, I feel like I would be able to create a more powerful project surrounding the idea.

Inforgraphics That Resonate With Me | VISC 404

Fonts & Colors by Tasty Placement

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This infographic is taking the different top brands and companies in the world and combining them to show which colors and fonts are most popular among the different brands. This immediately drew me in just for the fact that I love logos. I always like wearing shirts and hats that have a distinct logo on it because I find them interesting and like to pull them apart and find little things interesting about them. I think the way they designed this really makes it easy for the viewer to understand the information they are communicating through the infographic. They are able to take the info and turn it into a simple way for people to look at it and very easily understand everything they are trying to get across.

Man of Steel - Man of Ages by Imbong Hadisoebroto

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This infographic is taking the different designs/versions of Superman’s attire from 1934 to 2013 and displaying it on the same figure to show the change over the years. I really was drawn into this because of the idea of showing change in a simple way. They took the base figure and designed each one to show the detail of the different version of Superman. I feel like it’s an easy way for viewers to understand the design of each of the different versions. They can simply look at each and tell that each one has a different appearance and they can make comparisons for each one.