Principle 3
Develop Visual Language
Using visual language to explain things is so much different to using text, long pieces of text can go on and be a bit boring however if you explain something visually it can be a lot more interesting and you can have fun with being creative and expressing yourself through images not words. There is no limit on your images and by simple drawings you can make something really complicated sounding in words very basic and simple through images. Another good thing about drawings and images is that with writing you need to be able to read and speak the language however pictures and drawings can be understood in all countries no matter what language we speak.
By using drawings it is an easy way to get your thoughts down on to paper and sometimes you can see things a lot more obvious than if they are just thoughts in your head and then this also allows us to come up with more ideas and maybe totally change from out first initial idea. It is also a place to just play around and doodle to a particular theme and it will help ideas develop and improve. You can mix and match words with pictures to make it easier to get your point across and for people to understand. There are also ways to solve problems and make visual solutions. You can record things visually if you are inspired by something and haven’t got much time to write about it you can just do a little sketch and then you can go back to it later and remember and expand upon this initial idea.
Thinking visually means you are not limited to a certain amount of letters so you can just let your creativity run wild. You can then just use little phrases or words to help your drawings and so that you and other people know what it relates to and the general theme of it should be obvious. It can also be a lot quicker to do several little sketches rather than having to write a lot of words about every idea.
This is an example of a mind map and a way of using visual thinking with a few words to back up the images. This is a lot more interesting to look at rather than a huge piece of text and gets their point across in an understandable way which can easily be understood by all people.
This is an example of a mind map with simply just images and is exploring one particular theme so we can all clearly understand and see the ideas and thinking on the page that this person has gone through. By using colour as well adds to the creativity and makes it again more visually interesting as you can use colour to represent the same idea and then swap colours for each idea you have. By developing our visual language it shall be a lot easier to get our ideas across.
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