Wok and scroll: The process of designing an animated information graphic

Ellie Lin is a 2023 RJI Student Innovation Fellow partnered with the Sacramento Bee in Sacramento, California. The RJI Student Fellows will be sharing their work this summer through Innovation in Focus. 

Working with the data visuals team, we focus a lot on charting, mapping and numbers. On a new visual project, though, we were asked to flex a different muscle: creating an animated infographic for an investigative story. The story shed light on some restaurants’ resistance to California’s transition to induction cooking. The final product was an embedded scroller in the story that explained how induction cooking works and how it can work with a wok. 

Here are some tips we learned to make your next animated infographic adventure a little smoother.

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