Interactive Visualization: Your Daily Dose Of Water

Infographic: http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1204/your-daily-dose-of-water/flash.html

I think this is a very good interactive infographic in certain ways but it can definitely use improvement. The design of the infographic is very nice and is easy to read. From the start, the title, Your Daily Dose Of Water, is explanatory in the sense that it explains that we will learn about how much water we use in a day, but it would be better if it explained what metric we will be using. The rest of the infographic requires the user to click a variety of buttons in order to fill a bar representing gallons of water used. While this method does force the user to see each individual gallon amount, and nicely separates the activities by time of day, the fact that it requires so much time and effort to work through it is a downside of the infographic, since users nowadays tend to spend a small amount of time on each webpage. If an infographic takes too long to use, such as this one, it may encourage users to leave the infographic early, and they won’t learn all the information the graphic is trying to convey. Overall, the infographic is well-designed and relatively simple to use, but can use some tweaks to improve its attractiveness to users.