Visual Thinking: for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)

The power of sketching as a thinking tool comes from a combination of four things. The first is the fact

Actions that provide the subject or object of a spoken sentence by directing attention to objects in the world are called deictic gestures.

Our perceptual machinery comes partly from evolution and partly from our visual experiences as we interact with the world;

Visual thinking consists of a series of acts of attention, driving eye movements and tuning our pattern-finding circuits.

if you wish to make several things easily searchable at the same time? The solution is to use different channels.

The process of combining different features that will come to be identified as parts of the same contour or region is called binding.

can tell us about the layout of objects in space.

The ideal computer system that supports visual thinking should be extremely responsive, presenting relevant information just at the moment it is needed.

Diagrams, maps, web pages, information graphics, visual instructions, and technical illustrations all help us to solve problems through a process of visual thinking.