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The research surveys 500 IT decision-makers in the UK, US and South Africa. IT decision-makers have an overview of the content of company inboxes that a typical employee does not have. This empowers them with a broad understanding of what the shape of email is and enables them to evaluate email best practice. Check out the Infographic and key findings from the data in the Shape of Email Report, which include some interesting disparities.

This short and sweet design is fairly effective at getting its point across without dragging on. The key takeaways are that 21% of emails on work accounts aren’t even work related, and even fewer than that are mission-critical. We also take up a lot of our inbox with internal emails. I’m a little confused about where the final stat in the “inbox” imagery fits in. So 64% of people believe social poses a security risk.. what does that have to do with work emails? Social poses an email security risk? Perhaps some rephrasing or a few more words could clear this up. Also, the positioning of those bottom three stats is odd — why is archiving thrown in between two stats about social media?

This could get even better if the two biggest stats (and the inbox ones below) were actually visualized. If people could really see that the vast majority of their emails are internal, it would get the message across even better.

Overall I’d give this infographic a B: it’s concise and clear on the top stats, but the bottom 5 stats could use just a bit of work to clarify and visualize better.

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There are many concerns over the things that could go wrong during your Exchange migration; Loss of data, downtime, the sheer volume of data to be migrated and unsupported applications all give the IT team problems to solve even before the migration can happen.

This infographic has really cute illustrations (I’m especially a fan of the “Downtime” and “Over 500GB of email data” animals). All the effects of the great email migration are represented visually in an entertaining way that makes the viewer want to continue reading. The allusion to animal migration is a simple but effective way of making what could be a complex issue seem quite approachable — maybe even fun! Also, the colors are interesting without being overwhelmingly bright.

Unfortunately, although the illustrations of the animals are adorable, they’re serving the purpose of iconography rather than data visualization. It’s possible to do both–maybe snakes as bar graphs, or ponds as pie charts–but an infographic needs data visualization in order to truly be an infographic. There are lots of great numbers on here, but since they’re only written out, they’re only serving half their purpose.

Because of this I’d give this infographic a B-. The designer recognizes that numerical data is an important element of an infographic, but it’s just not being used to its full potential yet!

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This infographic comes to us from AsOne.co.uk and compares email to the Bible. I’ll be honest, I’m not sure why there is a need to compare email to the Bible in the first place, as this seems very much like comparing apples to oranges. The infographic would be far more powerful if the reasoning behind this correlation were explained. Upon submission of the infographic, AsOne.co.uk had the following to say about it:

Recently there has been much talk about EMAIL dying. We think EMAIL is still huge so we have illustrated that fact by comparing it to the size of the bible. We go on to describe the vast size of EMAIL comparing it to the EMPIRE state building and trips around the world. All artwork is original!

We have used the King James New Testament bible and have not included spam emails within our results.

That explanation makes it a bit better, but again, it’s not explained on the infographic itself, so this message will be lost on most viewers.

All in all, the design of the IG is OK, but the changing fonts deter readers, which makes it hard to take everything in.