PowerPoint Design in 2009: Develop visual thinking skills

This is the second post in the series guiding you through the 40 contributions to “PowerPoint Design in 2009″.  In the first post I explored the issue  “Does Design Matter?”.

And here are the links to the PowerPoint Design in 2009 resources:

1. A list of all the blogposts  with a one or two sentence summary of each post.
2. A list of all the blogposts with quotes from each post.
3. The e-mail contributions that I received quoted in full. These are from Cliff Atkinson, Guy Kawasaki, Julie Terberg, Michael Alley, Nancy Duarte, Richard Mayer and Seth Godin.

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The application of visual thinking to presentations

I’ve just finished reading Dan Roam’s book. I highly recommend it if you’re wanting to delve more deeply into visual thinking. I’ve also been doing other reading and web-surfing on visual thinking.

Here’s my thoughts so far on the application of visual thinking to presentations.

First, if we can express something visually as well as verbally – the audience will be likely to understand it and recall it better. From John Medina’s book BrainRules come the following figures:

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