Book Review: Visual Thinking for Information Design
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This video reviews Colin Ware's book: Visual Thinking for Information Design. While I have only read the first one-third of the book it has already been extremely insightful. I wanted to share what I learned from the book so far. In the video, I talk about concepts such as Predictive Cognition, Active Vision, Visual Queries and mental maps, the bottom-up information-driven and top-down attention-driven visual processes, and explore visual distances to design standout features.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:13 Colin Ware's promise - the book will help you...
02:09 The Dance of Visual Thinking (bottom-up and top-down processes)
03:20 Predictive Cognition: What is the role of memories?
07:19 Active Vision: Pattern finding is problem-solving
09:04 We perceive only a small portion of our surroundings
12:22 Seeing is all about attention
13:52 Shapes and distractors: What pops out? Visual Distances
17:27 Multilayer structure to design for search
18:27 Closing thoughts
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