Posts Tagged ‘thinking’

Thinking Visually

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Discovered this extremely powerful presentation about “Thinking Visually“.

Highlights some crucial aspects of thinking visually in 4 “M”s:

  • Metaphor
  • Model
  • Mindmap &
  • Manifest

as well as 6 steps to Thinking Visually:

  • Empathize – See the world as a child – Observe, Ask & Explore
  • Memorize – Commit thoughts to memory
  • Analyze – Take a step back
  • Synthesize – Filter signal from noise
  • Visualize – See it, then do it
  • Materialize – Make it tangible, make it stick
    • The 4C’s of Community
      • Content
      • Context
      • Connectivity
      • Continuity

Why does Visual Communication matter?

  • Getting attention quickly
  • Help to learn faster & more effectively
  • Let people do their own thinking
  • Helps to tell stories

Get Started with Visual Thinking

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Visual Thinking is perhaps the most usual form of thinking we all indulge in. Dreams, day-dreams, imagination and thoughts too are inherently visual.

We have been doing quite a bit of Visual Thinking @ Pictualize and off late as I thought of creating a presentation to help others engage in Visual Thinking, I came across this presentation by VizThink – An Introduction To Visual Thinking.

Hope it gives you a feel of thinking visually. Also intend to write about insight into building your visual thinking capabilities beyond the ordinary in a short while. Keep reading! :)

The Power of Visual Thinking!

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Visual thinking and it’s power is not something new but is one of the ancient powers of the human mind at both conscious and unconscious levels. It is through the same power that humanity was blessed with the following innovations.

1. Kekule’s doze-dream, about intertwined snakes swallowing their own tails in his fireplace, taught him the structure of the benzene ring, basis of all organic chemistry.

Sewing Machine

2. Elias Howe’s nightmare of cannibals attacking, whose spears happened to have holes in their heads, gave him his a-ha! for the sewing machine he had been laboring for so long to invent.

3. Nicola Tesla’s in-head visual predictions gave us our electric power system and a major part of the electronics industry and way of life.

4. Einstein’s “train ride on a beam of light” taught him–and us–his theories of relativity which remade the whole of physics and helped remake the whole of science.