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The Back of the Napkin, by Dan Roam"Visual thinking means taking innate advantage of our ability to see, with our eyes and our mind's eye, in order to discover ideas, develop those ideas quickly and intuitively, and share those ideas with others in a way that they simply 'get'" This book is a brilliant elaboration on Bill Buxton's idea of sketching, with a catch.The brilliance is in the simplicity and elegance of the model: people understand things better, and find them accessible, when they're sketched, competently and articulately, one step at a time, by handcollect everything you can look at that's relevant, lay it all out, organize and orient it, and then do triage on itdefine the problem using the 6 questions in the chart above, and illustrate it with the 6 corresponding types of graphicexplore the 5 dimensions of ways of looking at the problem: simple/elaborate, quality/quan... vision/execution, individual/comparison, and change/as-iswhen presenting the results of your problem-
How to Save the World Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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