My last post Seeing Color Differently inspired by realizing Kevin can’t see my favorite iphone game generated a interesting comment string. Cathy Moore said “color alone isn’t a reliable way to deliver a message.” That really got me to thinking how often I rely on color to convey a feeling or communicate emotion. Then I [...] Click to continue reading »
Seeing color differently
Kevin Jones was stuck in an all day meeting, twittering on his iphone. I tweeted back that he should be playing iphone games. Long story short, I suggested one of my favorites for boring meetings and classes, Trism. He tweeted back, what about something not about color? I forgot. He doesn’t see color the same [...] Click to continue reading »
What Makes a Visual Thinker?
VizThink is a community of visual thinkers. What does this really mean? Tom Crawford, the CEO of VizThink recently joined me using the VisualsSpeak ImageSet to explore this in two video podcasts. The first one can be found on the VizThink blog. In the second one, we talk in more depth about what the visual [...] Click to continue reading »
Using visuals to discover deep metaphors
I’ve recently read, Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers. Written by Professor Emeritus from Harvard, Gerald Zaltman and his son Lindsay, it is an exploration of what they have identified as the seven deep metaphors that influence what we think, hear, say and do. What do visuals have to do [...] Click to continue reading »
Visual business cards
I attended a workshop last week sponsored by the Senior Forum of ASTD-Cascadia, Improve New Hire Productivity Using Visual Thinking. It was facilitated by Barrie Levinson, the Director of Consulting at Xplane. Visual Business Cards The first thing we did was to quickly draw our own visual business cards, and share them with someone else. [...] Click to continue reading »
Suggestions for a visually noisy blog
This is the second post for looking at the visual details that effect how we read a blog. Part 1: What to do with a visually noisy blog focused on the design of the template that was modified for the School of Thought blog. Part 2: Ideas for visually simplifying a blog First I want [...] Click to continue reading »
What to do with a visually noisy blog
Part 1: Your template as your visual foundation Fred Deutsch emailed me with a Help, help, help me subject line: Hi, I really enjoy your site and am learning a lot. I’m wondering if you might provide me some feedback or suggestions? I started my blog for two purposes — first to communicate with constituents [...] Click to continue reading »
What makes these blog headers effective?
Jabiz Raisdana left a comment on Does my header make my blog look fat?, I would love a quick run-down on what story you think my images tell. He has three blogs, and I think all of Jabiz’s headers are effective for a number of reasons. Titles Jabiz uses Intrepid in all his titles. From [...] Click to continue reading »
Does my header make my blog look fat?
Sue Waters has been cleaning up her blog again. She wasn’t happy with her former header image. I assume this is the skyline of the Australian city she lives in? I don’t know for sure, and many of her other international readers may not know either. Is that a problem? Maybe, maybe not. But let’s [...] Click to continue reading »
Capturing attention with cute puppies
I’ve written about Beth Kanter’s use of images before, actually made a screencast about it which was selected as screencast of the week over at Techsmith. This time I attended a webinar where Beth was a presenter. Usually when I am on a webinar, I am doing several other things. Email, reading blogs, perhaps on [...] Click to continue reading »