StretchLearn Course

Turn Data and Complex Ideas Into Infographics People Actually Understand

The working information-design pipeline - find the story, pick the right chart, build a visual system, and ship clean exports - taught through one real infographic.

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Beginner9 hr 35 minSelf PacedRegistered

Course Overview

What this course is designed to develop

An infographic is not decoration on top of numbers - it is an argument made visible, where the wrong chart or a misleading axis can quietly lie. This course teaches the working pipeline real information designers use: interrogating a dataset to find the one story worth telling, matching each question to the correct chart type, stripping junk so the data leads, building a reusable icon and color system, structuring a vertical narrative that carries a reader top to bottom, and exporting clean files for both an Instagram feed and an A3 print. You work in tools you likely already have - Figma, Canva, Illustrator, and a spreadsheet - and ground every choice in the evidence-based principles of Edward Tufte, Alberto Cairo, and Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. By the end you will have one complete, fact-checked infographic built on real data, with a defensible chart, a consistent visual system, and correctly sized exports.

Learning Outcomes

What the learner should be able to understand, build, or execute.

Interrogate a dataset to isolate the single clearest story and the question the infographic must answer

Match each question to the correct chart type and reject chart forms that distort the data

Apply data-ink and decluttering principles so the data leads and chart junk is removed

Build a reusable icon, type, and color system that keeps a multi-section infographic consistent

Structure a vertical narrative with clear visual hierarchy and flow that carries a reader top to bottom

Export correctly sized, accessible, properly sourced files for both social feeds and print

Curriculum Preview

Inside the curriculum: a structured path from fundamentals to execution.

Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.

Module 1

Module 1: Foundations: From Data to a Story Worth Showing

Before any pixels, find the one story in the data and decide what the infographic must prove. Learn what infographics are for, how to read a dataset, and how to frame a single governing question.

3 lessons

What an Infographic Is - and What It Is ForContent · 45 min

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Reading a Dataset to Find the StoryContent · 50 min

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Framing the Governing Question and the One Big IdeaContent · 45 min

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Module 2

Module 2: Charts That Tell the Truth

Choose the right chart for each question, design it to maximize the data and minimize the junk, and learn to spot and avoid the ways charts mislead.

3 lessons

Choosing the Right Chart for the QuestionContent · 50 min

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Maximizing Data Ink: Decluttering a ChartContent · 50 min

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How Charts Lie - and How to Keep Yours HonestContent · 45 min

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Module 3

Module 3: Building the Visual System: Type, Color, Icons

Assemble the reusable design system that makes a multi-section infographic feel like one object - a type scale, an accessible color palette, and a consistent icon and pictograph set.

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Type and Hierarchy for Dense InformationContent · 45 min

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Color That Encodes, Not Just DecoratesContent · 50 min

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Icons, Pictographs, and Honest Visual MetaphorsContent · 45 min

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Module 4

Module 4: Layout, Narrative, and Shipping the File

Compose the pieces into a guided visual flow, assemble the infographic in a real tool, and export accessible, correctly sized, properly sourced files for print and social.

3 lessons

Layout and Visual Flow: Guiding the EyeContent · 50 min

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Assembling the Infographic in a Real ToolContent · 55 min

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Exporting, Sourcing, and Sharing the Final PieceContent · 45 min

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Built for Application

A complete learning path, not a one-off inspiration hit.

This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.

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