Piktochart Practice
Behold: a Piktochart. I've worked with Infogr.am before and I was not happy with its usability. I was hoping to find a solution with Piktochart, and while it does offer a lot more freedom when it comes to organization and labeling, it still has some quirks that made creating this graphic much more tedious.
For example, the block system is a great way to organize content in the chart—if you know about it. Otherwise it will throw you off and complicate your design. The blocks behave like overlapping panels, so content will be hidden or disappear if you do not size your blocks accordingly. When I realized this, I made the first section larger so I could fill all of the "Who is not online?" content in one block. Designers cannot resize content to scale, only by using a free transform tool, making it more difficult to size graphics proportionally. Users have to click outside the infographic before they can move an image or text area within it. If you create a pie chart with several different slices, the legend will be larger than the the pie chart itself, discouraging the designer from even including labels.
Besides these quirks, I found Piktochart to be a much better design experience because I could decide—for the most part—how the data appeared on the page.











