Author: Clarence Ling
Category: News
Published: 13 August 2018

Visme Review, The Best Drag and Drop Graphic Design Tool

Summary: Looking to create captivating visual content but don’t have the time or the funds to do so? Check out this awesome platform by Visme. This review will show you its benefits, that will give Canva a run for its money, with rich features and a great support team behind it.

Visme Review

The average person remembers only 20% of what they read but 80% of what they see. 90% of information transmitted to our brain is visual. That’s why visual content has become the single most important way to communicate, especially in today’s business world.So what should you do? Hire an expensive graphic designer or spend hours trying to learn how to use a complicated design software?Ladies and gentlemen, meet Visme! It is a simple yet powerful, all-in-one visual communication tool that allows you to create interactive presentations, infographics, visual reports, documents, printables, etc, in a matter of minutes, not hours! They have more than 1.5 million users from over 100 countries around the world!

Visme offers hundreds of beautifully designed templates, 100+ fonts, thousands of vector icons, millions of free stock images!

It also gives you the ability to embed your own content such as audio, video, surveys, forms, etc!

Now the good news is … drum roll: Visme is free forever! No credit card required! You can always upgrade to a premium plan if you need extra features or more templates.

Go create an account (it takes less than a minute) and save yourself lots of time and money: https://www.visme.co/?ref=classdigital

P.S. For example, here’s how IBM is using it to reduce their content creation costs by almost 75%.

The Process

This review starts with the design process by letting you select the type of media you want to design. See below:

Visme Media Types

In this case, I have chosen printables. This review will let you experience how graphics are designed so you can see for yourself, but will not be a comprehensive tutorial as we are merely doing a review.

Once you determine what you would like to create, there are options for templates. The number of templates are many and the quality is top notch. See below:

Visme Flyer templates

I have selected a blank template, this is how the editor look like:

Visme editor

You can zoom in and out changing the size of the editor as you please:

Visme Editor 2

As seen above, there are many icons and graphics you can choose from and there are even colour options.

There are preset components like text blocks you can use, making the design process faster:

Visme Text Block

In this case, I have chosen the "Brand Identity" for this review.

Once you have finalised the project, you are able to export it into various formats:

Visme Output

There are JPEG, PNG, PDF, PPTX and HTML5 formats available. For this review, I have used PDF.

You are able to select preset measurements for each project. I believe that Visme is geared towards an American audience, because they do not have A3, A4 and other sizes available. Nevertheless, at least with print material, the unmatching sizes do not pose much of a problem once you set "Shrink to the printable area".

Visme Printable

See here for another sample of a printable ready for printing:

Visme printable

Sample Works

Visme is easy to use and can really help you create visually stunning output. Here are some things I designed with Visme:

Safety Card

The above is an Airbnb safety card.

Joomla Web Design Front

The above is a promo flyer front page.

Joomla web design Back

The above is a promo flyer front page.

Visme - a Design Tool with many applications

One thing that sets apart Visme from other graphic design tools such as Canva, is the availability of presets for many different types of visual media. You can create nearly anything with Visme.

Visme is used for other forms of content such as anything from Flyers, to Scatter Plots, and Social Media Graphics.

Moreover:

Visme is used to make Graphs and Charts:
https://www.visme.co/graph-maker/

Visme is used to also create Printables such as Flyers
https://www.visme.co/flyer-maker/

Visme is also used to publish Survey results:
https://www.visme.co/survey-results-report/

Visme Demo Videos

Flyers

Infographics

Presentations

Conclusion

Visme is a powerful graphic design tool for non-designers. It simplifies the graphic design process and speeds it up greatly. It is definitely on par with Canva and similar services. One shortcoming is that the image galleries do not contain Font Awesome. If it were possible to access these icons for Visme projects, designing would be even faster and more efficient. I love using this tool and hope you will purchase it by clicking the banners.

Pros:

  • Easy to use
  • Rich features
  • Many media formats
  • Beautiful and numerous templates

Cons:

  • Would benefit with the inclusion of Font Awesome
9.3
Overall
8
Ease of Use
10
Features Available
10
Value for Money

About the Author

Clarence Ling Marketer

Clarence Ling

Clarence Ling is the founder and business owner of CLASS Digital Marketing. He is a self trained Joomla Front End Web Designer and a Digital Marketer, constantly procuring the latest martech (marketing tech) and incorporating current developments in marketing. Based in Perth, Western Australia, he is also a real estate agent in Malaysia, selling Australian property overseas, attached to the largest and best East Malaysian real estate agency, Kozin Real Estate Sdn Bhd. Clarence regularly commutes between Australia, Malaysia and sometimes other parts of Asia in his line of work.

Phone (Australia): +61 413 665 375
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