Pictures, Icons, IdeasBy Ashley Raiteri (ashr on twitter)

Icons are ideas

Software and Visual Language

Visual Models

Why is this true?

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67%

Processing Area by feature

visual processingspeech, lust, music, taste in food, love, non-visual memory (facts)

Seeing is older than talking

Written word

Pictures as ideas brings us words

1786 – The birth of Power Point

1812 Napoleon and Minard

Edward Tufte

Truth through clarity

Deceptive Pictures

Interactive Visualization

Information Overload

Understanding Content

Familiar Things

Pictures, Ideas, Action ?

2.4 Million images

People are not machines

Ideas, Icons, Pictures

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Truth

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