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Visual Thinking: for Design Colin Ware
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

One of my favorite examples of visual thinking – capturing complex ideas with pictures – is a post by illustrator Christoph Niemann for his New York Times Abstract City blog titled Good Night and Tough Luck. I'm not against visual languages. You approach design problems systematically from multiple angles, understanding there are pros and cons to all solutions. This is what we care about: Design with process and intent. Usually you get excellence in either writing, designing, or marketing; rarely do you get two out of three. This is the second post in the series guiding you through the 40 contributions to PowerPoint Design in 2009. Reason, design and communicate. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time. Robert Bringhurst; Most people think typography is about fonts. Stephanie In the wrong hands, topics like visual thinking and visual marketing can quickly get complicated. €�Design Mania” becomes a movement. It's just that the fixed semantics that make them so useful for design can be restricting when you're trying to figure out what it actually is that you're “seeing”. Tags: design thinking, gigamapping, global health, health and wellbeing, health systems, Julio Frenk, knowledge translation, public health, science, system dynamics, systems thinking, visual thinking |Leave a comment ». Most designers think typography is about fonts. In the first post I explored the issue Does. The discussion in the comments raises many important points, and provides many useful pointers (thanks especially to Peter Bakker) to resources, that help us explore and understand the role of visual thinking and visualization in architecting. With no end in site for the excitement surrounding design as a strategic competence, visual thinking is riding the coattails of IDEO and Stanford's d. In 2011, we plan on making Auxano Creative more visible in order to help more ministries understand the power of visual thinking. In Visual Thinking for Design, Colin Ware takes what we now know about perception, cognition, and attention and transforms it into concrete advice that designers can directly apply.