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Too Many Words? (#1594)
Posted: 3/8/2005; 1:58 PM by Terry Frazier
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Here's a great idea for the graphics-challenged among us. I ran across it over on Creating Passionate Users (found via Innovation Weblog). It's simple but helpful - if you can't use graphics programs, or don't want to shell out a few hundred dollars for Adobe Illustrator, just brainstorm on a white board and capture the result with a digital camera.


I've written many times about the power of graphics and the need to include them in blog posts. And yet, I am woefully lacking in exactly that. Too many words sums up my approach to lots of things. As CPU contributor Kathy Sierra says, good graphics give you accuracy, speed, and access and are critical to reaching today's younger readers. She closes with this valuable advice:

Too Many Words

[...] before you write something, ask yourself "What could I do in a visual form (photo, illustration, cartoon, whatever) that would make this point?" and see if you can do it. If you don't know a graphics program, start learning. It's the 21st century, and I believe that skill with visual/graphic tools (you don't have to be a designer!) should be right up there with typing and writing. Just something everyone knows how to do. (Virtually all kids in US schools are getting some training in some form of computer graphics.) Not everyone who writes on a blog is expected to be Hemmingway, and not everyone who creates pictures is expected to be Picasso. Keep thinking back of the napkin sketch. If you're not used to thinking in pictures, it might take a little practice, but before long, you'll wonder how you got along with only words. : )
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