A bar chart titled 'How consultants spend their week' showing data for this year and last year. The chart has four categories: Design, Data, Ops, and Content, with vertical axis labels from 0 to 45. Red bars represent this year's data, and blue bars represent last year's data. Design has the highest hours spent, followed by Data, Ops, and Content.

GATHER CUSTOM INFOGRAPHICS

BUILDING TOOLS WITH AI FOR WORKFLOW EFFICIENCY

CLIENT – Gather
PROJECT – Infographics Tool
ROLE – Design & Dev

CHALLENGE
Gather is a collective of independent consultants, with many teams who need assets (website, pitch decks, white papers, The Gather Signal podcast). Since most of these assets are created/published without design resources, I wanted to create a tool for the Gather community to produce on-brand assets. Infographics are an asset type that are used frequently but are time-intensive to create.

CONSIDERATIONS
Ease of use: Senior practitioners with limited time needed to go from data to finished chart in a minute or two. No login, no install, no learning curve. They can paste data from a spreadsheet, pick a chart type, and download a PNG.

On-brand by default: The palette, typography, and color logic are built into the tool, so brand compliance isn't something a user has to remember or a designer has to review.

Extending the brand palette: Gather's palette was built for identity, not data. Its single brand orange didn't carry a five-category chart, so I expanded that primary orange into a six-step tint ramp. Categorical data stays distinguishable and on-brand, with the secondary blue working exclusively as an accent for the data point a story needs to emphasize.

Legibility as a constraint: Charts are read on phones and embedded in articles at small sizes. Type sizes, line weights, and grid contrast were adjusted for that condition rather than the desktop view.

DEVELOPMENT
I built this with Claude Code, iterating the design and code together rather than handing off between them. It's a single page hosted on GitHub Pages, so the deliverable is a link anyone in the community can bookmark and use immediately.

TRY IT
https://cometogather.github.io/infographic-builder/

A screenshot of a web tool titled 'Gather Infographics Tool' showing a bar chart titled 'How consultants spend their week'. The chart has two sets of data labeled 'This year' in red and 'Last year' in blue, comparing the number of hours spent on categories such as Design, Data, Ops, Content, and Meetings. The chart is based on a survey from summer 2026.
A screenshot of an online infographic tool showing a bar chart comparing the amount of time consultants spend on various activities during their week. The chart has categories like Meetings, Content, Ops, Data, and Design, with different hours marked for this year and last year. The interface includes options to customize the chart, input data, and download the final PNG.
Pie chart titled 'How consultants spend their week' showing percentages for different activities including Design, Data, Ops, Content, and Meetings, sourced from Gather Survey, Summer 2026.
Line graph titled "How consultants spend their week," comparing data for this year and last year. The x-axis labels are Design, Data, Ops, Content, and Meetings, and the y-axis shows some numbers decreasing from 45 to 0. The red line represents this year's data, and the blue line represents last year's data.