Visual Thinking for Design

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Elsevier, 27 jul 2010 - 256 pagina's

Visual Thinking brings the science of perception to the art of design. Designers increasingly 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 this book, 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. The book includes hundreds of examples, many in the form of integrated text and full-color diagrams.

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.

  • Presents visual thinking as a complex process that can be supported in every stage using specific design techniques
  • Provides practical, task-oriented information for designers and software developers charged with design responsibilities
  • Includes hundreds of examples, many in the form of integrated text and full-color diagrams
  • Steeped in the principles of “active vision, which views graphic designs as cognitive tools
 

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CHAPTER 1 VISUAL QUERIES
1
CHAPTER 2 WHAT WE CAN EASILY SEE
23
CHAPTER 3 STRUCTURING TWODIMENSIONAL SPACE
43
CHAPTER 4 COLOR
65
VISUAL SPACE AND TIME
87
CHAPTER 6 VISUAL OBJECTS WORDS AND MEANING
107
CHAPTER 7 VISUAL AND VERBAL NARRATIVE
129
CHAPTER 8 CREATIVE METASEEING
147
CHAPTER 9 THE DANCE OF MEANING
165
INDEX
183
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Colin Ware is the world’s leading authority on the perceptual principles underlying the effective design of information displays. He combines interests in both basic and applied visualization research and he has advanced degrees in both computer science (MMath, Waterloo) and in the psychology of perception (PhD,Toronto). He has published over 160 articles in scientific and technical journals and at leading conferences. Many of these articles relate to the use of color, texture, motion and 3D displays in information visualization. His approach is always to combine theory with practice and his publications range from rigorously scientific contributions to the Journal of Physiology and Vision Research to applications oriented articles in ACM Transactions on Graphics and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. Fledermaus, the leading visualization software used in oceanography, originated in software developed by him and his graduate students.

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