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

Big patterns have a much bigger detection field,

that a line can represent many things because of the flexible interpretive pattern-finding capability of the visual system.

Visual distinctness has as much to do with the visual characteristics of the environment of an object as the characteristics of the object itself.

Using low-saturation colors for large areas generally makes the task easier.

Visual searches will take longer if only color coding is used,

It is not enough to look at many visual designs; each must be subjected to a visual critique for these skills to develop.

What we end up actually perceiving is the result of information about the world strongly biased according to what we are attempting to accomplish.

Information is only held in working memory from between one-tenth of a second and, at most, a few seconds,

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