Challenge

On 2017 I want to make my wish of making a trip around the world true, but my challenge is to  convert it from a dream to something plausible and real. So when I started thinking how to  prepare it a lot of questions overflooded me and I didn’t know where to start. (Problem: how  to prepare it, where to start, too many areas  in the preparation…)

Selection

I decided to use visualization because the huge amount of questions and information that I  was finding on the internet make me feel really lost. Also I was trying to explain what I needed  to my family and they thought that I was crazy cause they didn’t understand anything. So I  started to draw a quick diagram of my needs and the possible solutions.

Application

I draw in a sheet all the areas that concerned the preparation of the trip, then I listed the  possible solutions and the correlation between them to simplify the future process of  information search.

I took a map to decide the rute and used internet to estimate my budget. As I was going  through the process everything became clearer and the correlation between the areas started  to saw up. I attach the scheme to this description.

Insight  & Approach

What I have learnt from this activity is that when you draw an idea everything starts to clarify,  you can prioritize and choose between the information collected. In my particular case it  helped me not only identifying gaps in the preparation and finding the correlations between  the themes of my trip to simplify the future process of information search, but also to explain  my trip and my needs to my family.

As author, data journalist and information designer David McCandless said in his TED talk: "By  visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort  of information map. And when you're lost in information, an information map is kind of  useful."

PS: Sorry for my English

