Visual literacy and design
flickr photo shared by gato-gato-gato under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license What is visual literacy? What’s all the excitement about it? Communications, and visuals in particular, is a field that I’m really fond of. I’m a typical visual learner. I need to see in order to understand, remember, learn… As a French teacher, I use images a lot. I can’t teach without visuals, pictures, drawings or symbols ( The Noun project is one of my favourites). Two years ago, I took a “Speech and Language support for 5-11s” course. The aim is to encourage children’s communication skills. I learned that studies suggest that our minds are organised and more prepared to receive information through the visual route rather than any other sense and that over 50% of messages are conveyed through non-verbal communication. I also learned that our memory works much better when we use a multi-sensory approach. John Medina explained that and much more in Brain Rules . Why is visual literacy important? N