It’s pretty cool living with someone else who’s also a visual thinker. Just had lunch with my wife and we were discussing visual thinking and VizThink ’08, specifically some of the differences between the work of people like David Sibbet who do a lot of graphic facilitation, and information designers like Karl Gude who create [...]

I started reading Dan Roam’s “Back of the Napkin” months ago, but just didn’t have time to get very far into it. Finally this weekend I was able to get through the first two parts of the book, which essentially explain his framework. I’ve mentioned in other blog posts that I really like [...]

Karen Martin drew this map to visualize the relationships between the disciplines in urban computing. Some of these disciplines are the same disciplines I’ve got listed in my visual thinking taxonomy and seeing this map makes me wonder if a similar map of the visual thinking landscape might be a good way to go.

I spent some time the last couple of days looking for definitions of the items I had listed as “disciplines” in version 1 of my concept map. Specifically, I was looking into data visualization, information visualization, scientific visualization, information graphics and information design. There seems to be a whole lot of overlap and/or fuzzy boundaries [...]

Last night I learned that the way I was trying to represent my idea of a visual thinking taxonomy was called a Concept Map. I had thought that a mind map would work and had started one in SpinScape, hoping to get some collaboration on it. Sadly, the collaboration hasn’t really happened. And, I was [...]

It’s becoming painfully obvious to me how ignorant I am about the visual thinking world. Searching for terms about mapping information space I’ve come across all sorts of terms I wasn’t aware of that relate somehow to what I’m looking for but don’t seem to quite characterize it exactly; cybercartography, data visualization, information visualization, to [...]