Figure It Out: Getting From Information to Understanding :: UXmatters

Mapping our work allows us to navigate our life. It makes obvious not only the course we need to take to reach our destination, but also the terrain—revealing the amenities at our disposal and the roadblocks along the way. It plots our work’s context (the people, the places, the conditions, the effort, the trade-offs), helping us to envision our re

Visualizing work gives us power over it. When we see work in its various contexts, real trade-offs become explicit.

is difficult to get an overall understanding of the Edgy Media company structure from the verbal description, but with the diagram a number of structural relationships become immediately evident;

process of learning itself,

And thinking better is about finding simple processes that help us work through problems from multiple dimensions and perspectives, allowing us to better choose solutions that fit what matters to us. The skill for finding the right solutions for the right problems is one form of wisdom. This

Wehave developed a multifaceted view of what makes up a mature understanding, a six-sided view of the concept. When we truly understand, we•Can explain—via generalizations or principles, providing justified andsystematic accounts of phenomena, facts, and data; make insightful connections and provide illuminating examples or illustrations. •Can inte