"In Visual Thinking for Design, Colin Ware takes what we now know about perception, cognition, and attention and transforms it into concrete advice that designers can directly apply. He demonstrates how designs can be considered as tools for cognition - extensions of the viewer's brain in much the same way that a hammer is an extension of the user's hand. Experienced professional designers and students alike will learn how to maximize the power of the information tools they design for the people who use them."--BOOK JACKET

• Visual queries
• What we can easily see
• Structuring two-dimensional space
• Color
• Getting the information: visual space and time
• Visual objects, words, and meaning
• Visual and verbal narrative
• Creative meta-seeing
• The dance of meaning