Adioma - the infographic maker - Infographic maker that automates design using templates

@rotemthegolfer working on a free version with a watermark right now. For now, you can just try Adioma for 14 days. We don't charge your card at all during that time. And before the end of the trial, you'll get a reminder so you can unsubscribe if you want to.

@annavitals fair enough

@rotemthegolfer It's been 20 days an we have free accounts now.

@annavitals great! Thanks

@annavitals I have not received my confirmation email for Adioma yet. Who can I email about this?

@evankimbrell I agree, we are working on a better interface, with step-by-step experience.

@evankimbrell Yes, it was hard choice to make to not have a landing page. I did it this way because I am a visual person - I like to see what the product does right away without having to read a description. Plus, it's our first 2 days of existence, so I want to make sure everyone who comes can try creating a graphic without having to log in. I try a lot of startup products myself, and I found that I prefer seeing the product as quickly as possible after landing.

@annavitals I definitely agree that seeing the product first is better but the product main page isn't immediately intuitive. It takes a couple seconds to figure out what exactly you're looking at.

@evankimbrell Fair enough. Is it that the graphic on the landing pages doubles as instructions on how to use the product?

@annavitals @evankimbrell For what it's worth, I loved being able to play with the actual product right away and wish many more companies would do this.

@annavitals +1, happy to see Adioma live! I want to admit Anna's courage, She was so brave to make decision and launch it so early.

@thejobmarley Vishal, we launched free accounts now, so check back and try it out.

@annavitals Wow! 10x up votes for it.

@kelonye :) Now anyone can make graphics like us :)

@2f4c264ed499f67 Having a one-for-one equivalence between text and pictures is difficult indeed. That's why the art we use in Adioma is as functional as possible. We have to cover the entire language. It's not an original idea, though. It's been tried and partially done before. Gottfried Leibniz wanted to create a universal picture language back in the 1700s. Then Otto Neurath attempted and succeeded in doing this with Isotype in the 1930s. Now, here we are in 2016. There are plenty of great icon fonts, like FontAwesome. There is, like you mentioned, data visualization software, but the barrier to creating visualizations of text, that is conceptual visualization, has not been lowered. There isn't a place to put everything together into one coherent piece - something that would feel like a finished thought. To create something that resembles visual writing, one still has to use Photoshop and Illustrator, myself including, and be essentially a graphic designer. On top of that, one has to create that extensive set of icons/symbols to cover the entire language. It's difficult enough. But I think the urge to communicate ideas visually is present in many people, so that's why we are here today.

@2f4c264ed499f67 YES, you've got a point! There is no Universal Visual Language, where icons works like traditional Chinese characters and still semantic like traffic signs. Creating one is a long and steep way, and will require collaboration of many bright minds. I feel Adioma could take an important role in developing of that language.

@shadihalloun custom fonts are coming soon

@shadihalloun Great idea. We don't support HTML yet, but we should in the future.

@elena_iak We are planning on releasing specialized icon packs soon. Can you give me examples of words/terms you'd like icons for?

@annavitals I need to present research that I was doing for the state. It is on gonorrhea and other STI incidence. And possible causes of repeated infections. I need terms for men who have sex with men, different socio-economic characteristics, races/ethnicity, behavior etc.

@elena_iak This is helpful. Hearing from professionals about the kinds of icons that you would actually need and use is the best sort of feedback for me to learn from. Feel free to give me about 10 terms and I will try to include these icons soon.

@elena_iak @annavitals this is a really good example of an area, where icons could be helpful, especially in combination with Isotype diagrams to present data

@sicnarftea Francis, thank you for the feedback. You can always try for 2 weeks for free to see if the value of the graphics you create is more than the cost of the subscription. Also, can see how many you create in that time period.

@sicnarftea Now there is a free account option. You get access to all features, including downloads, with a watermark.

@annavitals Good call! I can try this with a few of my clients to get feedback before jumping in the deep end

@yunakalex Yes, I already made a Darth Vader icon :) Specialized icon sets are coming. Users already requested a blood donor icon and some others, for example. Feel free to ask for what you want in terms of icons. We can probably fulfill a few early requests first.

@yunakalex Ideally The icon set should be based on categories that represent the tree of knowledge. For example: if there is category people -> heros, Dart Weider should be there, along with Batman, Spiderman, Terminator and other popular heros.