Thinking Visually: A Strategy Manual for Problem Solving

by Robert H. McKim

The exercises, puzzles, and mental challenges in this book illustrate specific kinds of visual thinking that then can be synthesized by students into problem-solving strategies, including ambidextrous thinking, seeing by drawing, pattern-seeking, analytical seeing, and visual recall.

Genres: Psychology, Design

210 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Robert McKim predates ALL the writers and Proponents of the Visual Thinking Concept, making him the "grand daddy" of it all in a certain respect. It's this book I've taken into Boeing and it's this information that I look to when I'm trying to get to the core of what being a visualizer is all about.

This book is one of the earliest clear descriptions describing how to "do" visual thinking, thus serves as one of my key sources in my personal promotion of the "visualizer" concept in the technical arena where I work.

[Harold · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. Why is it not still in print?? It is too good to not be readily available.

If nothing else it is an extraordinarily eclectic book of sources, materials and exercises all in one place.

I'd recommend reading it three times through: first time a skim read to get a handle on what the program is in its totality; second time through to actually do all the activities (which includes making and collecting various materials) but not spending more than an hour or two on each exercise; and then a third time through, where you deep dive on activities that you want to work on. Some of the activities could be become a whole area of study in themselves, and if you linger too long on them you don't get to experience how the program is attempting to build up skills and awareness.

[wooj · Rating 5 out of 5]

awesome.