Structured Visual Thinking

Noodle #127

I'm luckily just sitting around with a smart device and a coffee. I find it a very creative moment. Like the image above it was a thought from data I had - then a doodle on a bit of technology - a paper and pen - then a better version and then with the help of my studio a thing of quality.

Fact is though the structure came first based on the information and meaning I had to convey - and therefore of course the visual could not have happened the way it did without that. Then I think what is that all about - and then these statements.

• Critical thinking is part framing, part discerning, part processing and part visualising. But it's wholly critical.
• Capturing the imagination is at the intersection of collaboration, conversation and visualisation.
• Visualisation is the emerging realisation of our thinking. Structured visualisation makes it happen.
• Without structure meetings are aimless. Without structured thinking they are pointless.
• I visualise to think but I use structure to think critically.
• Visually we understand everything much faster. Structured visually we can apply it immediately.
• Visual plans convey the future at least 10 times faster than written ones. Do the math!
• A structured visual created by a team, saves massive cost and time - unleashes shared energy and reduces risk. Do the math.

Coffee over - lets press on