A PowerPoint Presentation on Visual Thinking

Slide 1: Our world is overloaded with information

Slide 2: We are constantly trying to communicate ideas to other people

Slide 3: But our complex information channel often drowns out the ideas

Slide 4: We need to find a better way to communicate our ideas

Slide 5: Sketching out our ideas through “visual thinking” will help to clarify them

Slide 6: The following are adapted from Dan Roam’s Visual Thinking Concept

Slide 7: Any problem can be solved with a picture

Slide 8: You can draw – remember your kindergarten days?

Slide 9: Avoid drawing on the linen

Slide 10: Start by drawing a circle with your name in it

Slide 11: Make sure your drawing shows Who/What, How Much, Where, When, How, Why

Slide 12: Draw people in by drawing people

Slide 13: Take advantag e o f e ve ry me ntal trigge r you c an

Slide 14: Doodle aloud—and erase even louder Talk while you draw

Slide 15: Don’t draw what’s out there, draw what’s in your head

Slide 16: Draw a conclusion

Slide 17: Don’t lie (not to yourself, not to your audience, and most of all not to your picture)

Slide 18: Slide presentation by Norman Wei www.yourfutureclients.com Visual Thinking concept from Dan Roam Music by I-Ching