Visual Thinking: Is the letter dead?
He Visual Thinking It consists of expressing ideas, concepts, feelings or thoughts with images or visual resources of any type, whether drawings, photographs, infographics, etc. 
From using a different font for the most important things in high school notes, to using Mind Maps to plan complicated projects.
The headline “Visual Thinking: Is Print Dead?” It is, of course, an exaggeration, but we cannot ignore the need to update our ways of communicating and transmitting information.
It is not necessary to know how to draw well. We don't need to be artists, but rather know how to reflect in a visual format what we need to focus on, whatever the reason may be.
Visual Thinking is widely used in education and learning because the brain processes visual content much better than text since it can facilitate the four ways in which we retain information:
1.Visual
2. Reading writer (as long as she merges images and text)
3. Auditory (if the teacher or student reads the text aloud)
4. Kinesthetic/Kinaesthetic (if it is the students who make the drawing/scheme/infographic)
The teaching use of Visual Thinking is widespread, but so is its use in the business environment. Obviously, it is essential in Advertising and Marketing and in the management of collaborative projects.
Advantages of Visual Thinking:
1) Helps clarify ideas
2) Allows deep understanding
3) Generate a long-term memory with less effort
4) Facilitates communication between sender and receiver due to its universal language
5) Increase productivity
6) Draw the attention of the recipient
7) Simplify complex concepts
8) Create conceptual relationships that previously went unnoticed
9) Awaken the joy of being little again
10) Stimulates creativity
11) It's relaxing
12) It is available to anyone, regardless of age or condition
Private or shared, individual or collective Visual Thinking can save us from many types of complex situations. A simple post-it that reminds us of something, a calendar with pictograms for children who do not yet know how to read, a visual plan for work teams, a 'little message' for those who share space with us, a sign that warns us of a danger…
Visual Thinking has always surrounded us and we all learned to draw (even with little talent) long before we knew how to read or write.
If you still don't see the advantages of Visual Thinking, Ask yourself Why did you look at the 'drawings' first? that accompany this post and why you understood so quickly what the article was about when you took a look at the concept map.
Visual Thinking: Is the letter dead?
If you dare, we would like you to share on our social networks (Facebook, Twitter I Pinterest) your sketches and schemes under the hashtag #visualTHMainjobs.
