Comments on: 6 Simple Ways to Avoid Burnout

By: Wes

Wes — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:28:18 +0000

I kind of liked it.

By: Ren

Ren — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:46:05 +0000

Wow, there are a bunch of really whiny people around here. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be paid for doing good work (which Trent does) or with using infographics like this one. I found the post helpful. I’m going through a really difficult period in my life right now where I’m burnt out but can’t seem to recover. Thanks for the tips.

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:46:10 +0000

I wonder if Trent even knows that this website has infographics.

By: Izabelle

Izabelle — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:18:27 +0000

Design tip 3: Make sure you have a compelling *visual* concept (this should have been tip no. 1)

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:46:31 +0000

Michael, can you tell us where to look?

By: Izabelle

Izabelle — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:44:02 +0000

Design tip 2: Simplify. If any element can be removed without removing meaning, it should be removed.

By: Izabelle

Izabelle — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:37:28 +0000

Design tip no.1: contrast enhances legibility. Tone-on-tone text makes this piece a tedious read.

By: Izabelle

Izabelle — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:32:01 +0000

As a design and communications professional, I find it offensive that this is even called an infographic.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:23:26 +0000

The perfect illustration of when a picture is NOT worth a 1000 words.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:53:08 +0000

…you see Trent just wanted money.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:50:32 +0000

If you read old PF blogger forums..

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:43:45 +0000

@Vanessa: The purpose of an infographic is to make money for Cut Media.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:11:04 +0000

I actually think infographics can be a good addition IF, IF they are done right. It does have useful info, though I think the text is too small. I’m also not sure this adds to TSD. And who is Nicole?…

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:52:55 +0000

A good infographic takes a set of data and provides an illustration of trends/scale/relationships in the data that’s not obvious with simple text. This is an example of “infographics” – where someone takes some info and instead of writing an article makes a pretty picture that offers nothing new, it’s just cute fluff.
I used to come to TSD to read Trent’s thoughts and insight. This kind of stuff I can get on literally any PF site online, it’s lowest bid type work that just tries to get clicks without any long term thoughts to the site or community. I’m moving on from TSD if this is truly what it’s going to be.

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:52:12 +0000

Moderation?

Fine. The opposite of the best part of this new site is these infographics.

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:51:23 +0000

Is it just an article in picture form?

WORST part of the new site and that is really saying something.

By: DOT

DOT — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:49:08 +0000

The side bar of popular discussions caught my eye today. This is a quote from a 2007 post about cutting all advertising…My have things changed…”In the end, I finally realized that the real reason I write The Simple Dollar is to help bring about positive change in people’s lives, and when the site showed ads that really conflicted with that mission, I was undercutting what I want to do here. Sure, the income was nice, but quite often I was having to make some justifications that I really didn’t like, and that hurt you, the reader.”

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:42:49 +0000

I thought the purpose of an infographic was to summarize info, not illustrate an entire article. But maybe I don’t understand what an infographic is.

By: Evan H.

Evan H. — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:40:37 +0000

I can see the graphics perfectly fine in Firefox 12.0. The graphics are not scaled correctly in Internet Explorer 7. The workaround is to change your zoom level to 125% and the graphics come through just fine.

I really like the infographic. We really need to focus on single-tasking, multi-tasking is a complete farce in many cases.

By: MARIA

MARIA — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:35:28 +0000

I enjoyed the comparison of shopping for bread to retirement planning better than this article.