Visual Thinking
Thursday, July 29th, 2010I’m a big fan of Dan Roam’s book, The Back of the Napkin. (I’ll do a review of it later.) It’s all about visual learning, not the usual mindless approach that’s used to justify projecting lots of words on a PowerPoint slide. It’s about explaining what you mean by using simple drawings.
Here he is explaining his approach in his own words.
Here are two of my favorite quotes from the interview:
- “The essential element of communication is trying to get what’s in my head into your head in the fastest and the most efficient and most believable way possible…”
- “…there’s absolutely no more powerful way to communicate the idea that’s in my head into your head than by talking about it and drawing a simple picture of what I’m talking about it at the same time.”
Check out his blog, where he demonstrates what he’s talking about.
