Adioma creates information graphics out of your textual data, using timelines, grids and icons. Made by designers, it takes your information and automatically follows the rules of information design to present it clearly, and beautifully.
Oh wow, this just might actually be crazy handy - I might even recommend to anyone looking to build a clean & clear pitch deck to make use of this tool & their assets
@elizabethhunker Thanks, Elizabeth. I use it for pitch decks too - when I want to communicate a lot of info but not overload with graphics, it does the trick.
Adioma creates visualizations out of your textual data. Made by designers, Adioma takes your information and automatically follows the rules of information design to present it clearly, and beautifully. Maker - Anna Vittal | http://anna.vc/about
@rotemthegolfer working on a free version with a watermark right now. For now, you can just try Adioma for 14 days. We don't charge your card at all during that time. And before the end of the trial, you'll get a reminder so you can unsubscribe if you want to.
@dusty_much Thank you for asking, right now it works best on desktop, on mobile it's hard to use. But that's the next priority for us to make it work. I also used Adioma on tablet and works pretty well, except the download. But it does save the graphics to your dashboard, so you can download on a desktop later.
Looks really neat and easy to use. Definitely gonna try this out since I'm so bad at making infographics. Also, made by a husband/wife team? So cool!! ππ«
@sicnarftea Francis, thank you for the feedback. You can always try for 2 weeks for free to see if the value of the graphics you create is more than the cost of the subscription. Also, can see how many you create in that time period.
@yunakalex Yes, I already made a Darth Vader icon :) Specialized icon sets are coming. Users already requested a blood donor icon and some others, for example. Feel free to ask for what you want in terms of icons. We can probably fulfill a few early requests first.
@yunakalex Ideally The icon set should be based on categories that represent the tree of knowledge. For example: if there is category people -> heros, Dart Weider should be there, along with Batman, Spiderman, Terminator and other popular heros.
Interesting. I like it but it's very limited in pretty much every aspect for these prices? Is this how it functions all the time or is this just a demo with limitations?
@rhdarian The demo is limited. With a trial subscription you will have access to all the features: downloading, vector files, storage of graphics. The trial is risk free. We don't charge you for 14 days at all.
Which limitations you wish weren't there?
Cool idea. Crowded space unfortunately. Some basic onboarding screens or a more traditional landing page design would help a lot. I knew what the site was but kind of got lost trying to figure out how to use it
@evankimbrell Yes, it was hard choice to make to not have a landing page. I did it this way because I am a visual person - I like to see what the product does right away without having to read a description. Plus, it's our first 2 days of existence, so I want to make sure everyone who comes can try creating a graphic without having to log in. I try a lot of startup products myself, and I found that I prefer seeing the product as quickly as possible after landing.
@annavitals I definitely agree that seeing the product first is better but the product main page isn't immediately intuitive. It takes a couple seconds to figure out what exactly you're looking at.
@annavitals@evankimbrell For what it's worth, I loved being able to play with the actual product right away and wish many more companies would do this.
Since this accidental launch - we didn't even have a landing page when we appeared on PH, a lot has changed. We have added tons of features. Today I saw 400 people came from here, keep coming :)
Hi. I am Anna, creator of Adioma. I'm an information designer. Thank you, Vishal, for posting on here. It was the very first day of Adioma, so I didn't expect it to be here. Thanks for the feedback so far. Please ask me questions about graphics, Adioma, or anything related. I care about visual communication being available to all.
@annavitals I need to present research that I was doing for the state. It is on gonorrhea and other STI incidence. And possible causes of repeated infections. I need terms for men who have sex with men, different socio-economic characteristics, races/ethnicity, behavior etc.
@elena_iak This is helpful. Hearing from professionals about the kinds of icons that you would actually need and use is the best sort of feedback for me to learn from. Feel free to give me about 10 terms and I will try to include these icons soon.
@elena_iak@annavitals this is a really good example of an area, where icons could be helpful, especially in combination with Isotype diagrams to present data
So there are tools for data visualization, there are ways to draw maps or schematic plans, but there is no universal way to visualize arbitrary concepts, which is what you are aiming for apparently with such an extensive set of icons. I am yet to be convinced that text is not the best tool for this job though, but lets see Adioma proving me wrong :)
@2f4c264ed499f67 Having a one-for-one equivalence between text and pictures is difficult indeed. That's why the art we use in Adioma is as functional as possible. We have to cover the entire language. It's not an original idea, though. It's been tried and partially done before. Gottfried Leibniz wanted to create a universal picture language back in the 1700s. Then Otto Neurath attempted and succeeded in doing this with Isotype in the 1930s. Now, here we are in 2016. There are plenty of great icon fonts, like FontAwesome. There is, like you mentioned, data visualization software, but the barrier to creating visualizations of text, that is conceptual visualization, has not been lowered. There isn't a place to put everything together into one coherent piece - something that would feel like a finished thought. To create something that resembles visual writing, one still has to use Photoshop and Illustrator, myself including, and be essentially a graphic designer. On top of that, one has to create that extensive set of icons/symbols to cover the entire language. It's difficult enough. But I think the urge to communicate ideas visually is present in many people, so that's why we are here today.
@2f4c264ed499f67 YES, you've got a point! There is no Universal Visual Language, where icons works like traditional Chinese characters and still semantic like traffic signs. Creating one is a long and steep way, and will require collaboration of many bright minds. I feel Adioma could take an important role in developing of that language.
Such great tool and by far not accessible to some of us that cannot pay $39.00 a month for infographics, who can actually? $39.00 a month! for a popular educator like myself it is crazy, I would never be able to afford it! I'll invite Adioma to create a free version! Karma would manifest...it should be a no brainer, especially nowadays!