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Visual Thinking for Design
Increasingly, designers need to present information in ways that aid their audience?s thinking process. Fortunately, results from the relatively new science of human visual perception provide valuable guidance. In Visual Thinking for Design, Colin Ware takes what we now know about perception, cognition, and attention and transforms it into concrete
advice that designers can directly apply. He demonstrates how designs can be considered as tools for cognition - extensions of the viewer?s brain in much the same way that a hammer is an extension of the user?s hand. Experienced professional designers and students alike will learn how to maximize the power of the information tools they design for the people who use them.
CONTENTS:
VISUAL QUERIES
The Apparatus and Process of Seeing The Act of Perception Bottom-Up Top-Down Implications for Design Nested Loops Distributed Cognition Conclusion
WHAT WE CAN EASILY SEE
The Machinery of Low-Level Feature Analysis What Stands Out = What We Can Bias for Visual Search Strategies and Skills Using Multiscale Structure to Design for Search Conclusion
STRUCTURING TWO DIMENSIONAL SPACE
2.5D Space The Pattern-Processing Machinery The Binding Problem: Features to Contours The Generalized Contour Texture Regions Interference and Selective Tuning Patterns, Channels, and Attention Intermediate Patterns Pattern Learning Visual Pattern Queries and the Apprehendable Chunk Spatial Layout Horizontal and Vertical Pattern for Design Examples of Pattern Queries with Common Graphical Artifacts Semantic Pattern Mappings
COLOR
The Color-Processing Machinery Opponent Process Theory Channel Properties Principles for Design Color-Coding Information Emphasis and Highlighting Color Sequences Color on Shaded Surfaces Semantics of Color Conclusion
GETTING THE INFORMATION: VISUAL SPACE AND TIME
Depth Perception and Cue Theory 2.5D DESIGN Affordances The Where Pathway Artificial Interactive Spaces Space Traversal and Cognitive Costs Conclusion
VISUAL OBJECTS, WORDS, AND MEANING
The Inferotemporal Cortex and the What Channel Generalized Views from Patterns Structured Objects Gist and Scene Perception Visual and Verbal Working Memory Thinking in Action: Receiving a Cup of Coffee Elaborations and Implications for Design Novelty Images as Symbols Meaning and Emotion Imagery and Desire Conclusion
VISUAL AND VERBAL NARRATIVE
Visual Thinking Versus Language-Based Thinking Comparing and Contrasting the Verbal and Written Modes Linking Words and Images Through Diexis PowerPoint Presentations and Pointing Mirror Neurons: Copycat Cells Visual Narrative: Capturing the Cognitive Thread Cartoons and Narrative Diagrams Conclusion
CREATIVE META SEEING
Mental Imagery The Magic of the Scribble Diagrams are Ideas Made Concrete Requirements and Early Design The Creative Design Loop Visual Skill Development Conclusion
THE DANCE OF MEANING
Review Implications Design to Support Pattern Finding Optimizing the Cognitive Process Learning and the Economics of Cognition Attention and the Cognitive Thread What?s Next?
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