Sketchplanations - A weekly explanation in a sketch

You take the final communication, flip through it, and write down the main point from each page (it’s a nice way to test your horizontal logic as well). The resulting list should look like the storyboard or outline for the story you want to tell (Figure 7.4). If it doesn’t, this can help you understand structurally where you might want to add, remo

Like idea illustration, it relies on conceptual metaphors and conventions, but it takes place in more-informal settings, such as off-sites, strategy sessions,

As you’ve already discovered, the process of sketching out your ideas visually gives you a different perspective to that of writing them out in a linear way. Not necessarily better, just different, and in the exploratory phase you want as many different ways of understanding your material as possible, because each new angle you try will show you so