Better Understanding - Visualisation

Challenge & Selection

Visualisation is an important tool which helps in non-verbal communication.  Visualisation is thinking and presenting something in visual manner and not drawing.  It plays an important role for the entire development process. I use this tool to explain  any situation or concept to peers or others so that they can understand the problem  or solution to any problem better. If we had told verbally some people might understand  in a different way but if we use this visual thinking tool everyone will be connected to  the same topic because there is step by step process of what is happening or what is  to be done. It makes our brains to think in many different ways which we might not be  doing normally.

Application

I have to explain my project to higher officials so that whether the project can be taken  up or dropped. We have many ideas of the project in mind and we used this tool to  showcase our idea of the project by showing the image of the process flow chart so  that everyone is able to understand without any issues. It not only used to tell the idea  but also made them understand how the process of the project actually works, the  different systems involved. If I tell only the verbal communication there are chances  that we may forget them but this loss of idea is very less in the case of graphic. The  whole process as each and every cannot be explained as they become confused of  what they are actually doing or what they want to do, whereas a graphic image will  erase all the problems raised from the verbal communication.

I explained my project in a very simple and organised manner of how the process is  done at different stages with a simple flow chart diagram in my Ashok Leyland  Interview. This made the interviewer to look at the diagram other than just hearing in  case of verbal communication and as he is looking at the picture he gets more  information and he asked me many questions related to the process.

To remember any concept very easily we can use this tool to remember the entire  sequence or details with a simple image and also takes a short time to reproduce  again whenever we want. Many learnings and conclusions can be made from the  graphs alone other than lots of text.

Insight

What I have learnt from using this visualisation tool is if we use this people can  understand the idea better and they can take up the idea for further implementation.  The feedback of the audiences is recorded and the graphic which is used to  demonstrate can be improved to reach out more effectively. The idea generation is  difficult and explaining or communicating the idea to someone is much more difficult  when dealt with verbal manner.

Using this tool helps to gain insights in a lesser time because we know where we are  in the sequence and the mistakes if any can easily be rectified. It is better if everyone  learns about drawing a stick figure or basic images so that will be helpful.

Approach

I learnt this tool helps a lot in better understanding of concepts by others in a short  duration, I use this tool from the first stage so that there will not be any  misunderstandings or loss of communication between stages in design thinking  activities. The images shown in the due time can be used as reference at any point of  time in the future. Story telling is also a good tool for understanding but to remember  the steps it is difficult. It is easy to remember one image other than 5 steps of operation.

