Thanks to Harry the Hipster, Kermit the Frog gets a lesson in visual thinking.

Harry the Hipster just did a great job explaining to Kermit what visual thinking is. But here again are the steps in the visual thinking process:

1. Collecting information – doing research in any form that works for you.
2. Seeing a pattern within that information and creating clusters of data
3. Composition – arranging items to form a unified whole
4. Translation – defining a result that people can understand

I’m planning to do a series of posts on various visual thinking techniques but until then I’ve put together a few resources so you can learn more about it.

Resources

Blogs
• Digital Roam – by management consultant Dan Roam who is the author of The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
• Journal – by Scott McCloud, an amazing comic artist, author of the book Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art and the creator of The Google Chrome Web Comic
• gapingvoid: cartoons drawn on the back of business cards – by Hugh MacLeod, and author of the book Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
Books
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition – Edward Tufte
• The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain – Betty Edwards
• Visual Thinking – Rudolf Arnheim