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How I generated 15 vibrant and highly detailed infographics at the last moment...

As we all know, the human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text. Also, our attention spans have become incredibly short. For video content creators, it is the first 5 to 7 seconds of their videos, that decides if their videos will have a longer watch span or not.

This leads us to the importance of infographics.
Adding infographics to our documents, presentation, or anything that has text, has the potential to
1) Hold the readers' attention for a longer period.
2) Present the information concisely.

I have used Napkin AI to prepare a pitch deck for a case study competition. The deadlines for the submission were closing in fast and apart from this event, my team members had a lot of other obligations to fulfill. We didn't have the time to
1) Go through all the information, and
2) Summarize it, and
3) Jott down the main points that graphics can depict, and, finally
4) Design the graphics from scratch.
5) Just one graphic is not enough, we needed at least 10, maybe more.

Description of the process of deciding infographics simplified using Napkin AI

That's where my army of AI tools jumped in to save us. Long story short,
1) we fed the problem statement to ChatGPT.
2) We wrote prompts for specific perspectives of the case and the questions we needed answered.
3) We pasted ChatGPT's instructions into Napkin AI and it generated the graphics for us.

Here is a collage of the pics that we had generated.

Collage of the AI generated infographics using Napkin AI

All the infographics that are used here are generated from Napkin AI itself.

Here is a list of all its features we found to be useful :
1) You can generate visuals from text.
2) It generates a good number of options for you to decide which one of all the options, suits your needs the best.
3) Each option has several styles to choose from, to match the theme of whatever you are working on.
4) You can customize your visuals, colors, border outlines, and even the text.
5) You can sketch and draw directly on your visuals
6) You can export in PNG, SVG, or PDF format.
7) You can collaborate with your team.
8) You can upload your visuals and customize them
9) There is a free version and a paid one. You can choose to use whatever suits your needs the best. (I chose the free one. :) )
10) There is a feature to add comments too.

Here is an infographic to summarize all the points mentioned above :

Features of Napkin AI

This tool is very handy, intuitive, and easy to use. Once you get started, you will instinctively know what to do and how to proceed.

There is one thing that I feel Napkin AI needs to work on: The web app lags a bit after one napkin is used for too long. While the generation of images provides numerous options, scrolling through them was a bit longer process than expected. What I mean is scrolling is supposed to be instantaneous but while using Napkin, it took me more than just an instant, took me around 4 to 5 instants, at max.

I wish Napkin had plug-ins or extensions to be used alongside Google Docs/ Slides, MS PowerPoint, WordPress, or other creator tools that are used very often. Those features might roll in soon.

Altogether, Napkin AI presents us with an incredible demonstration of the power of Artificial Intelligence, more specifically, the Gen AI.

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