You Ask, I Answer: Best AI Tools for Infographics?

In today's episode, Maximo asks, what are the best AI tools to creating infographics? That is a big broad question that depends on what you mean by an infographic, because there's so many different kinds. Here's my first question. Is the infographic static or is it editable? Meaning that you need to be able to go back and make edits and changes to it.

If it is going to use changes, then you want to use any AI tool that has a canvas that can create HTML, right? Because you're going to create it as essentially a web page, browse it, and then maybe take a screenshot of it. But by having the B HTML, it is editable. If it does not need to be editable, then your best bet is probably going to be something like Google's Nano Banana Pro inside Google Gemini or inside Notebook LM. Those will create very capable infographics that look fantastic and that incorporate Google's state of the art image generation.

ByteDance's C Dance model can also create excellent visuals as well if you are using open models. That is a great choice for you. ChatGPT can do an okay job. So it's not terrible, it's not the best, but it's not terrible. Claude can't create images, but it can create HTML.

So if you are in the Claud ecosystem, uh you're going to be doing the HTML route. And the key thing to say there is to have it create, and this is the this is the prompt. Create an infographic in the style, you know, specify a style, have it ask you what style you want, like bento style, for example. Um using HTML CSS and C D N JS. C D N J S, which is Cloudflare's uh JavaScript delivery network that incorporates a lot of visualization tools and uh rich visualization libraries that can make really nice graphics, including interactive graphics, which is something we didn't even talk about, whether or not the the infographic needed to be interactive or not.

Interactive infographics are pretty awesome. You can do some really cool stuff with them. And with a tool like a Claude Code or Claude Cowork or even just regular old Bastion Claude or Gemini or ChatGPT, they can all create those things. You also need to have the data for in some kind of machine readable format. And the two formats that I would recommend that AI does the best with.

One is called JSON, JavaScript Object Notation. And the other is called YAML, which stands for uh yet another markup language or YAML, a markup language, depending on who you ask. And that will get you results that have far fewer hallucinations than giving you know your tool choice uh a direct kind of spreadsheet or whatever. It's just they just don't do that as well as they should. So if you're using uh copilot, uh the I believe the pages feature will support some of this, but again, Copilot can also, because it's as long as you've got it set to GPT 5.2 thinking, which is the smartest model available in in Copilot, uh, it can also create that HTML as well.

And that will that will help you get what you want out of a great infographic. You should do some deep research. I always recommend having some a deep research knowledge block, which is just a text file in markdown or YAML format of what the major infographic styles are out there, like I mentioned Bento style, and you want to have this available so that you can guide the tool and say this is these are the styles that are available to us. It's a catalog of techniques, and then you can say to the AI of your choice, choose the style that best fits the data that we're working with, because different styles are appropriate for different use cases. Some styles are really good for uh like bento style.

If it's like a lot of factual data, if there's more of a narrative data, then it might be more of a storytelling style, a journey style. If you have a graphic design team, ask them for their infographic style guidelines. And if they don't have that, that shame on them, because they should have that available for you to be able to use. So those are the tools I generally recommend for infographics. It's less about the specific AI tool and more about being good at prompting it.

And if you are not sure where to start, just take the take this entire episode, put it into uh clip transcript into AI of choice, and have it walk you through everything I just talked about about choosing a style, about looking at your data, converting your data, etc., and you'll generate better infographics that well. That's gonna do it for this episode. Thanks for tuning in. Talk to you on the next one. If you enjoyed this video, please hit the like button.

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