Whether you’re developing a presentation, a screencast or an explanatory video, a key piece of advice you’ll hear over and over again is to develop a script and storyboard for the project before the actual production phase. This is something I’ve tried to take to heart in my presentation, screencast and video projects.
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More good feedback from people on this on the VizThink forum. Through discussion on that forum, I realized I’d blundered. The original graphic I did was just trying to show the difference between getting ideas out of people’s head vs getting ideas into people’s heads. In the Dan Roam lexicon, it was a “what” problem [...]
It’s pretty cool living with someone else who’s also a visual thinker. Just had lunch with my wife and we were discussing visual thinking and VizThink ‘08, specifically some of the differences between the work of people like David Sibbet who do a lot of graphic facilitation, and information designers like Karl Gude who create [...]
Came across a reference to the book, Visual Communication: Images with Messages by Paul Martin Lester. Looks pretty good, but at over $100 for a new edition, I won’t be ordering that very soon. However, I also came across Lester’s course notes. He’s a professor in the Department of Communication at Cal [...]
Last night I learned that the way I was trying to represent my idea of a visual thinking taxonomy was called a Concept Map. I had thought that a mind map would work and had started one in SpinScape, hoping to get some collaboration on it. Sadly, the collaboration hasn’t really happened. And, I was [...]
At the recent VizThink conference, I attended a couple of breakout sessions on mapping; Bruce Daniel’s “VizMaps: An Alternate Approach to Describing Where” and John Grimwade’s “Mapping the Possibilities.”
At the time, I wasn’t really sure what attracted me to these two mapping sessions, but reflecting upon it now, I think I was hoping that one [...]
