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Visual Thinking
Last week we had Jonny Goldstein come in and give us a two day workshop on visual thinking.
It was a great session. We learned some good visualization strategies to help us solidify ideas such as mind-mapping and conversation mapping. He also went over a lot of basic diagrams, such as flow charts and timelines, and and which work best for addressing one of the five fundamental questions of what, when, where, why, and how.
Most importantly though I think it was nice to really be shown the benefits of this type of process. His examples and demonstration made its usefulness apparent quickly. The session structure of providing tools and then time to practice them, was very much appreciated because it also allowed for a lot of feedback.
He touched on the fundaments too and really broke down the strategies for drawing people and objects and went over the different methods of displaying different types of data from cold numbers to intangible ideas.
My only wish is that we had more time. I know Jonas is hoping to bring him back throughout our time here for some refresher courses, so that will be great.
See more photos here.
