Video: The Times’ Effective iPad Infographics

The Times’ infographics are great in print, but imagine what they could be online.

Times Newspapers has commissioned design agency Applied Works to custom-build some highly engaging interactive charts and graphs for its iPad edition.

Here’s some info and a demo video, for those of you who don’t already pay £9.99 a month…

It routinely surprises me that more news publishers don’t put more time in to conveying stories for busy consumers diagrammatically, rather than in reams of text alone.

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