From the course: Learning Design Thinking: Lead Change in Your Organization
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Tangibility: Making complexity visual
From the course: Learning Design Thinking: Lead Change in Your Organization
Tangibility: Making complexity visual
- There are lots of ways that ideas are made tangible, but they generally fall into two categories. Quick prototypes meant to be shared and iterated upon, and these can be paper prototypes to scale models or semi-coded interactions. And visual representations that help manage complexity and reveal the bigger picture. You often see these as frameworks or diagrams, like ecosystem models, journey maps, and storyboards. If you aren't already comfortable with making visual analogies and capturing the relationship between details and the longview on a napkin or a whiteboard, I highly recommend you explore building your whiteboarding skills. When we're working with complex information, we can often draw shortcuts with symbols like icons or simple models and a few words to express these relationships. And these shortcuts let us mentally bucket the information that went into each piece, so that we can step back and talk about the bigger picture. For example, we were working on a problem in the…
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