Visual Thinking Thoughts
I have been listening to some great stuff by Dave Gray and others on thinking visually. Not about clinical information systems design, but about approaching complex situations through visuals. Dan Roam’s book The Back of the Napkin is an excellent introduction to visual thinking and how to design sketches to help think and present ideas.
Definitely regretting not having gone to Viz Think ’08 this last year, but thankfully they have shared several pieces online (check the blog in particular).
Much of the discussion is around making a complex and chaotic world make sense. Distilling the complex whirl of information into something that can be engaged and reasoned about. A story given a sense of time and knowing that stats don’t give people. Visuals engage the right side of the brain in a way words don’t, helping to process information in a different, more holistic way. The two help make sense out of the utterly complex.
(Note the irony that this post is the first without a visual.)
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