The role of Visualisation

During one of the activities in design thinking class, I and my group mates were asked to think about a specific problem and try to find a possible solution for that in a particular time. In that moment the problem which our group faced with was about thinking too much regarding the problems instead of doing any action, so we lost the time to visualise our idea perfectly. On that moment, I Found out two important points in the process of design thinking:

1-    The importance of balance between "thinking" and "doing" 

2-    The impact of visualisation in problem-solving process

Generally, it is considered an image is worth a thousand words since it can deliver, without any declaration, thousands of direct meaningful influences very quickly. Accordingly, visualisation can be an essential component of the method that we communicate with each other, whether we're aware of it or not. When we are coping with complicated problems, we are performing several kinds of problem-solving. Indeed, visualisation is certainly imperative for the procedure of Design Thinking as it is truly a way of exposing a different part of our brain and allows us to have an access to our creativity. That is the reason which design thinkers call visualisation as “the mother of all design tools”. In fact, this concept is used in every stage of the design thinking procedure. 

When we face with the concept development, visualisation can be extremely beneficial. Our brain is starting to create images of something that does not be existent or happened so far and making pictures of something that will soon be. 

In fact, by doing this activity, I realised that Pictures and images allow us to not only help people recognise what it is that we are trying to do or say but enable us to persuade them in the value of that specific concept or the strength of our idea.