Visual fluency: Say it in pictures

Do you communicate across boundaries of language and culture? Do you need to communicate graphically but can't think of what to draw? If you answered "yes" to either of these questions, this presentation is for you.

Today's communication media demand more than just words. Producing effective user-support, Web pages, documents, and training materials requires the ability to understand, think, and communicate graphically-to be visually fluent.

This presentation teaches you how to show instead of just tell. It shows you how to convert words to graphics. You will practice picking graphical forms to represent the most common kinds of ideas you communicate. You will learn to tap your visual creativity and seduce reluctant readers. By looking at numerous examples of what works and what doesn't, you will learn valuable principles that you can use back on the job to refine your own graphics. And you will learn to avoid the embarrassing graphical blunders that mark the visually illiterate.

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