Five glorious presentations on visual thinking Do you think in words or pictures, or both? Visual thinking engages the part of the brain that handles visual processing, and is said to be both "emotional and creative" so you can "organise information in an intuitive and simultaneous way". A picture really might be worth a thousand words, while being easier to understand and recall. Therefore it is worth exploring how visual thinking can help you communicate ideas to colleagues and clients. I have collated a few presentations to help you do exactly that. Visual Thinking By Chris Finlay. An Introduction to Visual Thinking By Ryan Coleman. The Value of Visual Thinking in Social Business By David Armano. The ten and a half commandments of visual thinking Via whatidiscover. Visual and Creative Thinking: What We Learned From Peter Pan and Willy Wonka By Kelsey Ruger. [Joyous visual thinking image by jonny goldstein via Flickr, various rights reserved]
Keyboard Cathy - "LIVE AT THE SIDEWALK CAFE" NOW OUT ON CDBABY & iTUNES - Bio It’s funny how a single movie can inspire us to pursue our dreams. “Keyboard Cathy” Wiegand wandered into the 2005 film adaptation of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and walked out not itching to travel through space, but humming “So Long & Thanks for All the Fish,” the whimsical end credits song by Irish singer Neil Hannon—who just so happens to be the frontman of one of her favorite groups, The Divine Comedy. The versatile singer/songwriter had performed at live benefits for years and had amassed a large catalog of instrumentals in her Roland E-600, but that fish song—and her lifelong love of sushi—led “Keyboard Cathy” to dust off her dreams and record her clever, quirky, sublimely melodic debut indie album Inspiration in 2006. She grew up singing in high school and community theatre musicals, so there’s a certain theatricality to it.
Visual Thinking Magic | The Evolution of Extraordinary Intelligence Data Visualization: Modern Approaches « Smashing Magazine Tour, Goalscape Tutorial | Goalscape - goal management software tool Use focus view to “zoom in” on a subgoal at any level to show it at the center of its own goal map. The miniature of the full goal map maintains the overall context. Set relative importance visually: resize subgoals by dragging their borders – all its neighbors resize automatically. Lock subgoals to fix their importance. Record your progress visually and watch it advance. Goalscape automatically reflects the aggregate progress in all subgoals upwards into their parents. Set start and end dates to enforce scheduling: Goalscape automatically checks that timescales for all subgoals lie between their parents’ start and end dates. Assign responsibilities to subgoal areas and individual tasks. Capture additional information as notes text and attach files in any format: documents, spreadsheets, images or even video.
The Rise Of The Visual Social Networks - The rise of the visual social networks? People mostly perceive with sight and it should not be a surprise that it’s images and visuals that grab the attention. And when people see something nice they want to share. In terms of social media and social networks we see that the trend is to”go visual” and simple. That’s also the cause of Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter where users share visual information – photos, pictures and videos. Why should brands and CMOs care about this phenomenon? I came across the following infographic The Rise Of The Visual Social Networks, as during the last year social networks became even more oriented toward visual elements. This infographic explains this phenomenon and highlights facts of new Facebook time-line, twitpic and more. More importantly, it shows why should brands and CMOs care and focus on the visual elements. Mostly because visuals lead to increased engagement and generate more referral traffic. What About You? Source: adverblog.com
ToDo - interaction & media design Relation Browser / Visualisations showing relations | valderama.net Relation Browser - Moritz Stefaner Different types of relations, different type of entities. Number of relations should not get bigger then ~25. Ask Ken - Michael Aufreiter (Linz) In contrast to the "relation browser" (by moritz s.) here a whole graph opens. Image swirl - G. The start is a Grid View. PaperCube - Peter Bergstrom my thoughts are here Publication Map - Moritz Stefaner Publications are clustered according their cross-references of single articles. Relation Circle for Publications - Moritz Stefaner Here just one type of relation and one type of entiy is used. See infoVis Pattern .