The brief for every piece of commercial design is the same: what does this person need to understand, and what do we need them to do next. The visual treatment follows from that. We do not design to win awards, and we do not design by aesthetic committee.
Infographics, in particular, earn their place when they make complex information genuinely clearer. We see a lot of information decorated to look like a chart rather than presented as one. The test is simple: does it make the reader smarter faster than a sentence would?

