1. Talking With Pictures
A Business Idea To Create A Website
Where People Can Communicate
Using Pictures Instead of Words
2. Talking With Pictures
Why don’t we use pictures to communicate when
everybody understands them much better than
words?
It’s because we don’t have rules to form pictures into
sentences. What we need is a visual grammar.
This presentation provides a very basic introduction to
how we can create a visual grammar.
3. I Developed The Concept Of Frames To
Create The Rules Of A Visual Grammar
Every picture will have a frame around it. Rules will be encoded in icons
inside the frame. I am provisionally referring to them as frameicons.
Different parts of speech will have different frameicons.
4. An Example of a Noun
and the Rules Applied to It
A profile of a head represents a person or people. The circles frameicon represents
one, few or many people. The first circle is selected to represent one person
5. An Example of a Verb
and the Rules Applied to It
The above picture represents running. The triangular
frameicon represents future and past tense. The future one is
selected meaning will run. If neither is selected it means am
running. If both are highlighted it means shall have run
6. Extending the Visual Grammar
The next step is to extend the rules to give structure and meaning
to multiple pictures so people can create visual sentences.
Additional frameicons must be also be created. For example to
identify sex or to indicate intensity like good, better, best.
7. Cater for Different
Levels of Sophistication
Simple users will use basic pictures and simple or no frameicons. Sophisticated users
will use all pictures including those representing abstract concepts and the full range
of frameicons. Other users will be somewhere in between these two extremes
8. Build a Minimal Viable Product
to Test This Idea
Once I have a minimum number of pictures and enough frameicons for basic
conversation I’m going to build a prototype website using Google App Engine. This
will enable me to test the concept and get feedback so I can grow the product.
9. Use Crowdsourcing to Turn the
Prototype into a High Quality Product
Try and get as many people as possible to test the prototype and
ask them to add pictures to the dictionary and give feedback on
everything they can that will help to improve the product.
10. Enable People All Over the
World to Talk with Pictures
My goal is to provice a high quality website which will provide an
alternative visual means of communication for people who cannot
use normal means to communicate
