Student library workers are easily bored by the time they learn the importance of identification verification in their training programs and quickly forget what they learn. Yet, this process ensures only library account holders have access to check out items to their accounts. ID Verification engages students with a soft color palette, representational graphic illustrations, and interactivity in an easy to understand format that is more memorable than simply showing IDs and pointing to Websites.

This is a brief video that uses ScreenFlow to show the infographic’s interactivity. Hovering over the IDs next to the young woman in the bottom pink section brings up a hidden layer explaining why or why not the ID can be accepted when checking out library items. Zoom features are used to help make the text more legible while watching.

Adobe Illustrator was used to create the infographic. Through using layers within Illustrator, graphics, text, and guides are grouped and organized, making it easier to keep elements together and manage them. Layers can then be turned on and off, or regrouped before export into a PDF file.

As with all projects, the first iteration is rarely the final version published. This is the first version of the infographic before feedback was implemented. Comments on the IDs not being the same and confusion as to which ID is the preferred one were addressed for the final version.