Comments on Bunchberry & Fern: Resolutions: More flavours, Less Texty

Thanks Robert - I had read your post and, like man...

2010-02-19T09:06:00.783Z

Thanks Robert - I had read your post and, like many people I know, love Prezi but can't seem to find the time (or get over the fear) to try it out.

I hadn't seen Ahead - which looks wonderful. Though, again, it's daunting.

Here's your post but clickable - Prezi and Ahead, Powerpoint killers for the web? by Swan.

I added to your wave embed. Here is another comme...

2010-02-18T16:36:51.301Z

I added to your wave embed. Here is another comment: I highly recommend including a prezi or ahead presentation rather than a slideshare. Much more holistic view of the concept than a series of rectangles.

Here is a review I did of the two products: http://swanthinks.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/prezi-presentation-tool/

Adding to the visual thinkers people: I forgot ab...

2009-12-31T14:16:46.422Z

Adding to the visual thinkers people:

I forgot about Austin Kleon, who has a website here:
http://www.austinkleon.com/
And this from Lynn Walsh:
http://www.ontheplusside.com.au/wordpress/?p=1036
And, of course, this website:
http://vizthink.com/about/

I think I'll try to grab a whole bunch of those and work up a linkfest.

What a wonderful comment! Thanks for stopping by. ...

2009-12-30T13:40:31.849Z

What a wonderful comment! Thanks for stopping by.

I never thought of text as being symbolic before. In fact, if you'd asked me which was the 'more symbolic', I'd probably have gone for pictures. But you're right, of course.

I'm in Tokyo at the moment, and one of the things you notice is the ubiquity of analog communications. If there's the slightest opportunity to display things in pictographic form, they do.

In my notebook, I found a note today:
"Must attempt to record visual vocabulary items - eg you can draw a face on anything!"

Slightly breathless, but there are more visual vernacular materials here to draw on. And it's a cliche but Japanese people are more 'analog' because of the writing system. My seven-year-old isn't exceptional (though you will never hear me say that to his face) but has amazingly advanced drawing skills in comparison with kids of the same age in the UK.

Here's my visual thinkers tips:
Mark Changizi has some interesting insights (though few of them 'practical'.)
http://www.changizi.com/
Dave Gray is cool.
http://www.davegrayinfo.com/
And there's a whole bunch of mindmappers and viz thinkers on Twitter. Are you on Twitter?
Here's a list, for example of vizzy people:
http://twitter.com/mrinal/information-visualization

I'm planning to post some more stuff on developing a visual vocabulary but my starts on this are the approach I've detailed in this post (and the ones about intranets) and here:
http://powerfodder.tumblr.com/

This is a tumblr blog where I'm collecting images I'm using as a brainstorming tool - what could they be used to represent?

Good thoughts! From my perspective one of the mai...

2009-12-30T12:20:04.503Z

Good thoughts!

From my perspective one of the main problem is symbolic communication vs. analog communication. Text vs. pictures.

Symbolic communication (i.e text) has a remarkable power when it come to handling abstract concepts. But text is essentially code and therefore requiers preexisting knowledge in order to decode it. This makes text very "un-immediate".

Analog communication (icons, pictures and drawings) has the power of being very immediate. But we are not trained in analog communication which is a shame when we now have the technology that easily allows us to produce and reproduce analog com.

Scott McCloud ( http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/index.html ) and Øistein Kristiansen ( http://www.oisteinworld.com/ ) are both good ambassadors for analog communication. I can recommend exploring their websites.