How does visual thinking impact your world?
I have written some blog posts that touch on visual thinking but earlier this fall Winthrop Middle School art teacher, Lisa Gilman, shared this article with me from WIRED magazine, September 27th. The article is called Clive Thompson on the Power of Visual Thinking and is written by Clive Thompson.
The author shares how he uses visual images to help him process and make decisions and goes on to say how visualization experts are promoting visual thinking as a way to solve problems and communicate to explain ideas.
Dan Roam is one of the experts and he helped with an idea that President Obama had tried numerous times to explain in words. Roam used a series of napkin pictures to illustrate a health care debate that the President could not explain well enough in words for everyone to understand. Within a short time, 300,000 people had viewed the images on the internet and many of them emailed him to thank him.
The internet has pushed forward images and therefore, making pictures has moved away from being childish. Perhaps the future will have this form of communication on equal terms with verbal communication.
What are your thoughts on this topic? Please read the article and then add your comments below.
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