Overall, my experience was positive - it works fine for my needs which is creating layouts for reports and infographics.

I like that it has a lot of customization features (still would love to have much more options!). Once you set up a template of a graph, exchanging data is extremely easy.

My problem is really specific - round graphs and text labels just don't work - if you want to make everything readible and lookind nice you have to add your labels seperately which is extremely annoying.

Datylon saved my day with big report documents, obtaining excellent results; yet, the learning curve is steep and you have to be creative sometimes to get always what you want from your graphs.

Note: I’m a Datylon user in Adobe Illustrator environment. Datylon is great for big report projects: once you have set up your graph, you can apply it to several sets of data without any annoying “reset” issues from the Illustrator Graph tool.

The software lacks in consistency of features among the several graph types, especially the “Data label” feature, available only for Line graphs. I’ve been able to work this out by applying a Line graph w/data labels over Candle graphs, but it meant losing a lot of time in setting up both spreadsheets and Datylon graphs; some easy tweaks are not available (i.e.: in Data Labels, it will automatically delete leading zeros, even if the source data is set as text, and you can’t switch it off); in order to solve these issues, you need a good knowledge in both spreadsheet and Illustrator softwares.

Seems little daunting at first, but eventually started figuring something things out. I worry about my less technical designers getting into this thing. Its need much better tutorials, contextual help, and error handling. Also would like to see a way to do Sankey diagrams built in, and more letter-level control of type (like if I want to bold part of a label, or color a single word or something).

I was on a design project that required a lot ofcharts, graphs, and other data visualization. Illustrator's built in tools are very lacking. Loved how many different chart types Datylon had out of the box. Gives designers a lot of options.

It's missing an undo feature. I messed something up, and it gives me an error in the plug-in screens but I have no idea where to fix it. Still displays the way i want so I just live with it. Also its a little hard to navigate and understand where the various settings I need are. Really needs contextual tool tips to help explain what everything does (with visual examples).

Overall it is a great tool to have, which directly plugs into Illustrator. It outputs very aesthetically satisfying graphics, which are easy to edit and customize. The tool is easy to learn, and if you have any questions they are happy to set up a video call to help you. Brilliant tool, brilliant service.

Datylon is easy to use for those of us in the design industry, who are more visually trained. It is much quicker and easier to use than Power BI, and the graphic results are far more pleasing.

As all data has to be prepared prior to using Datylon, it can get a bit messy as it is not being drawn from one source. However, this also makes it simpler to use. It is disappointing that you cannot customize the icons (in the icons graphs) at present.

Being able to create a chart within Illustrator, then "expand" it and fine-tune customizations is fantastic. Otherwise, I've been exporting charts to .svg and bringing them into Illustrator, which is not as clever.

If there is a graph you need to create, Datylon can do it. The types of graphs and customizations for these graphs are nearly limitless.

I really struggled to figure out a couple of basic features: it would be great if there were a way to create a histogram from a single column of data. I could not figure out how to do this. You need to create a "count" spreadsheet separately with a linear scale (1,2,3,4,5) according to the bins you want, then hide the x-axis of the resulting graph.I recognize this requires Datylon to perform math/calculations, but it sure would be helpful.Second, I have not figured out how to set the "zero" point for a diverging bar chart - the category/value that separates left and right sides of the chart. I'm wondering if it would be helpful to have, by graph type, a tab with feature settings particular to that graph type. It would clarify which options are available.

I love that I can easily create charts and update the info much more simpler than in the Illustrator chart creation tool. This plug-in is very robust and can do things which not only save a lot of time, like resizing the charts while having the fonts stay the same size, but also enables me to have more control in the design process while creating clear and precise data visualization assets. The more I use it the easier it gets but I can see that it is capable of doing so much more than I utilize it for. I highly recommend Datylon to anyone that needs to create charts for Data Visualization.

There's a bit of a learning curve but I've been able to figure out most things thru trial and error and when I can't figure something out the help desk is very helpful in solving the problems.

Excellent

Chart options, and the ability to bridge the gap between Excel and Illustrator was a great time-saver

Pricing is too expensive for individuals; I guess working in a big organization has benefits. But I won't pay a monthly subscription for a utility but rather a standalone product.

My experience with datylon is very good because I have speed up my processes and my execution of similar graphs. I found it very useful in the case of report design with dozens of charts, mostly similar between them.

I like the easy merge of data sources and the customization of the chart chosen

I don't like the possibility to switch from one chart type to another without losing the visual style that I have defined.

I scheduled a meeting with [sensitive content hidden] when I first downloaded the app. I can recommend this to anyone since it greatly shortens the learning curve. After tinkering with the extension for a few hours, I had my workflow figured out and am happy to have saved time using it.

Copying charts with the same design elements makes a purchase of Datylon outweigh the costs.

It would be nice to find a way to make each chart 's x and y grid lines appear uniform automatically in instances when charts with drastically different x and y values are copied to duplicate visual elements. This is ENTIRELY POSSIBLE MANUALLY.

Datylon is hands down the best chart great and data visualization tool on the market that works seamlessly with Adobe Illustrator. You can easily resize a chart, and the text does not distort or change size. You can duplicate a chart. You can connect multiple charts to one data sheet so you can easily update the data across all your charts. Almost everything is customizable. And the icing on top is that you can also upload your charts and files to the Datylon platform and create templates to reuse over and over.

Occasionally I do find I want to make a specific customization and that isn't available, but usually there is a work around or another way to solve. I do wish you could create a hyperlink text box on the online platform so that templates can have clickable links.

I am so happy we found Datylon, as I was pulling out my hair with Illustrator's chart tool. While I feel like there is a steeper learning curve than I would like, I appreciate the range of capability, and feel that I have only scratched the surface with what can be done.

Datylon allows us to create branded charts and graphs within Illustrator, with far fewer headaches than if we solely used Illustrator's built in tools. We are able to control the look and feel of the charts while maintaining editability.

There is a bit of a learning curve with Datylon that we had to work through. It doesn't act like an Adobe product, and isn't quite as intuitive. The data fields also don't quite act like Excel, so it took few beats to remember that hitting tab won't move the curser to the next cell. Remembering which menu controlled the look of which element took some time as well. But once we picked up on the way everything works, it has been MUCH better than what we were doing before.

Overall, Datylon has been a great tool for us to make static data visualizations for print products and the occasional web product as well. Once you understand how to import and format data and learn about all the customizable data options, it's not overly difficult to use and has a great variety of charts to choose from.

The best thing about Datylon is the incredible level of customization that is possible for every chart. It's great that you can manually adjust the size of a chart and the entire chart will automatically resize, it's easy to change colors, font sizing, data point positioning, labels, etc. Occasionally you get to a point where you need to expand the chart and manually adjust something, but if you put the time in, you can usually find an option to adjust almost anything in your chart.

There are a few things that could be improved. The first is the constant updates of Datylon that are not incredibly well communicated to users. My colleague and I often find that Datylon will stop working (usually the editor will not appear or function) and we realize that there has been an update that we need to install and then restart our computers to activate. Fewer updates and better communication would be appreciated. I would also love to see a choropleth option! I work for a company that deals with a lot of demographic data and we are often needing to make choropleths of the world or states/counties/regions within countries. Even just starting with a world option would be great. There is also a big learning curve for this software. For me, the first time I used Datylon it took me several hours to try and understand how to format the data. Importing was easy, but the data was not arranged correctly and I didn't understand how the binding worked or that I would need to adjust the highest numbers that the axes would reach. I think there is probably a way to improve this. More video tutorials would also be helpful.

Datylon is clearly a very powerful product, but some of that power is let down by a slow and clumsy interface. You can get it to do what you want, but it'll take time and patience, especially if you care about pixel perfect layouts and typographic details. Our primary use for it has been for marketing-oriented trend reports and analysis, so many of our visualizations are on the 'light' end, focused more on the visuals than hardcore data. Datylon has been very useful particularly in creating layouts and then adapting them for new sets of data, e.g. for updated surveys or different regions, but at times it feels like (1) it may be overkill for our somewhat simple purposes, (2) because of its slowness and clunkiness mentioned above, it may have been quicker and easier to create the charts using Illustrator's limited built-in tools. I think it's better suited to much larger scale and deeper visualizations that may be created once and then updated infrequently. But it's a decent product with a lot of potential, and I look forward to seeing how it improves with time.

The ability to revise and edit the data, and have it automatically update in the chart. Shared data sets for different charts, easy to duplicate charts using different subsets of the data for comparison. I love the ability to set custom colours through the sheet.

It's *very* slow. Edit something, anything, and it takes at least a second to reflect that change on the artboard. In addition, many of the settings for text font/colour/placement/alignment etc. are very fiddly and unintuitive. So there is a lot of trial and error till you get things looking the way you want them to. And then, there's no way to save styles or presets - so if I'm making a new chart I have to go through and change the font, sizes, colors, label positions, etc. etc. all over again. Duplicating charts - it's not immediately clear that it's also copying the data into a new sheet, so you inadvertently land up with multiple sheets with the same data in them, rather than one shared source sheet. I know I can go in and manually switch out the sheet, but why not give me the option to keep the same one when duplicating the chart? For heat maps etc. that use symbols like stars - let us use custom shapes! I know you don't want to build a full scale spreadsheet in an Illustrator plugin, but some of the sheets' functionality still feels too limited - basic things like dragging cells to duplicate/increment, for example.

Datylon support is superb. I had a few questions – they were answered quickly by the support team. Development of the product is ongoing, new features are well-documented and appear to genuinely be responsive to user reports and experience. The Datylon team are very switched on to understanding what their users are doing and how they are experiencing the product.

I'm a long-time illustrator user, and while Illustrator has features for graphing and charts, they're neither particularly well implemented or extensive in terms of what they can produce. Having tried dozens of online trials for graphing software, and even subscribed to a few for some time, I eventually happened upon Datylong and the basics quickly over the course of one full-on, frenzied job for a particularly exacting client. The results were superb, and frankly, the ability to revisit Datylon charts within Illustrator, and quickly tweak parameters, absolutely saved me from many agonising hours Illustrator editing.

Datylon has a learning curve. However, all good software does. One great thing though, is that each time you solve a problem and create something you like, you can easily reuse your old work, or use it as the basis for the next project, improving on it or using it as the jumping-off point for something a little different.

Very good, even though certain things could be upgraded/fixed so that it can do more and is more customizable. Such as default typeface, size, styles. It's the best thing I've found so far, and thank goodness I don't have to use the Illustrator built-in graphing tool anymore!

Being able to easily resize a graph's height and width instantly.

There are certainly kinks to work out, especially having to remove all commas (,) from numbers when inserting data.

Datylon has been absolutely incredible. Their customer service is tremendous. If you have a question about how to use a tool, they have helpful FAQs, or are even able to recreate your request and give you feedback on how to achieve your desired look. The tool itself is indispensable. I feel like we (designers) finally have an easy-to-use tool that doesn't lack the customizability and design aesthetic that other graph maker tools tend to have.

The amount of customization along with the number of various chart/graph types were a huge selling point for us. That paired with how quickly we're able to create these custom graphs made this a no brainer, and an absolutely indispensable tool for us. We wouldn't be able to produce such nicely designed graphs and charts so quickly without Datylon.

The few things that I thought were odd that was left out has since been addressed. Which brings me to my next point: the Datylon team is incredible. They actually listen to feedback and come out with community-requested features fairly frequently throughout the year. So even if I were to think of another downside, I'd just bring it to their attention, and I'm fairly confident they'd look into that for future release updates.

I am mostly using Datylon to visualize analytics data about games, to be used inside data reports and also as part of marketing materials to communicate the results to our users. I used to have to pre-visualize this in some type of charting software and then redraw everything in Illustrator to make them presentable (given our poorly the native chart implementation is). So I jumped on to Datylon after finding out about it! Making charts is no longer a pain after that.

Natively design charts using easy-to-use panels. Being able to import any CSVs and select the columns intended for different fields, together with a huge collection of charts, makes it easy to create charts that can be used for final delivery. What makes things extra nice is that the color palettes can use swatches directly from the Illustrator Swatch Library — so it means that it’s possible to set a global color in Illustrator and have it reflected in multiple places. This makes organizing and editing complex charts easier.

When the chart has many data points (e.g. scatter plot with thousands of values), performance can suffer a bit (both in the render and the UI). This might have to do with the UI not being native and so a lot of things are done behind the scene to render the advanced layout. It doesn’t affect most of the charts I create though so I’m still happy with it. But if this can be improved, I would use it on a lore more charts with complex visualizations.

Nothing but excellent.

SO Flexible. You don’t have to start over every time new data comes in. With Illustrator, you practically have to start from scratch every time. With Datylon, once the design is set, all you do is change the numbers. Pays for itself after the first job.

It’s not really a con, but the interface is pretty complicated. That’s understandable given what it does. But once you get it down, everything cruises.

From research to implementation, the experience has been amazing. One-on-one support and offering suggestions on how to implement certain data into visuals. Wish I would have known about this years ago - it's been very helpful with layouts that have a lot of data and making sure there is consistency. Also speeds up workflow for last-minute changes and the option to resize graphics that will update on the fly - bravo to the team!

This was a game changer for creating charts and other data visuals that were correct in terms of data and the ease of implementation of client branding.

I wish there was a way to save brand assets ie: swatches, fonts, and overall create styles that can be saved.

It has a learning curve, but it's more than worth it. Bridges the gap between data and designers.

Tool that completes illustrator on a topic where illustrator (and all the other adobe products) are missing out on.

Could be budggy, but it's also beiging fixed everytime rappidly. Color management is not possible (cmyk / RGB)

Datylon is voor mij ondertussen een onmisbare hulp bij het maken van foutloze grafiek voor jaarverslagen en rapporten. Gedaan met manueel cijfergegevens bij grafieken te plaatsen in illustrator! Als grafisch ontwerper is het een enorme timesaver.

Handig men kan kiezen hoe de cijfers van de datalabels worden gevisualiseerd, (komma, punt, afronding na de komma…). Kan overweg met verschillende 'schrijfwijzen' van data bij de input (vb. negeert een %-teken). De mogelijkheden om grafieken te stylen zijn ook zeer uitgebreid.

Als grafisch ontwerper ben ik niet gewend om te werken met datavisualisatie. Het heeft even geduurd voor ik men weg vond, maar dankzij de voorbeelden is het gelukt. Bij het copy-pasten naar indesign loopt het soms wel mis, dan verspringen er soms wat cijfers.

It helped me improve quality of delivered designs and cut time needed for designing and updating graphs.

It is great product to design graphs in Illustrator. Perfect for long and complex publication. Very easy to update data when needed.

It lacks some minor feature (like mixed graphs) and InDesign or Adobe Libraries integrations.

Datylon has giving me a way to share data in an efficient and beautiful way!

I love the options that Datylon gives me for reporting. The information I need to share each week is pretty boring so the fact that a spread sheet can become a beautiful report that clients WANT to read is amazing!

I would love to see a way to really customize icons, right now I feel like there are a lot of hoops to jump through. It would be great to see a rounded version of a heat map as well.

Love it. Once the data is in it is easy to create numerous charts with the data. Very time consuming to create these charts with Illustrator.

How easy it is to use. I was able to produce a chart in a matter of minutes. Charts that normally took a long time in illustrator.

The data import feature. It is very difficult to manipulate the data within the program. Not an actual spreadsheet. A simple copy and paste ability would be nice.

We have increased the quality of our business reports and the ease of designing beautiful data charts with our design language.

We've loved how it has increased our productivity by connecting our datasets with Datylon. We have created a seamless workflow between designer and engineers that have allowed us better understand us.

We did not like the possibility of saving our custom designs for the rest of the team and the absence of a basic table and the possibility of connecting the plug in to a live server.