Mastering Concept Visualizations: A Simple Workflow for Creating Effective Visuals

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I discuss concept illustrations in this video and share my workflow for creating simple concept visuals. I explain that concept visualizations are functional representations of abstract concepts or ideas, typically consisting of images and text. I provide examples of simple visual metaphors and more abstract visualizations, highlighting their versatility. Concept visuals can be used in presentations, storytelling, marketing, and explaining concepts. I emphasize the importance of thinking about the message and using relevant keywords for searching images. I suggest building from existing icons and images before searching the internet, and I demonstrate how I use my icon library to support image reuse and serendipitous knowledge discovery. The goal is to make the message less boring, more memorable, and easily understandable for the audience.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:59 What are Concept Visuals?
02:23 Examples of Concept Visuals
03:23 What are Concept Visuals Used For?
04:12 What you should NOT do...
06:09 Step 1
06:36 Step 2
08:00 Step 3
08:49 Step 4
10:19 Step 5
15:45 Step 6
16:53 Step 7
19:11 Closing Excercise
20:51 My Solution
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[@NikolausBrigade]

Thank you, hope you have a long live Mr. Zsolt

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[@bc4198]

I love your work! I'm looking forward to trying out the presentation mode 🤩🤩🤩

[@kyle11235]

You are a legend. Thank you for the community plugins you developed and thank you for these videos 🔥

[@ksoonsoon]

As my mother likes to say, this is a “truism”!!

[@reverband]

Thank you Mr Zsolt! Your work is impressive!

[@JB-gd1sq]

Thank you for sharing your content here. I love your structured and very understandable way of communicating.

[@wacho1832]

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[@rodking7501]

Wonderful!

[@rbsllapbaplaprap448]

Thank you for your content

[@LukasPetry]

Very valuable! Do you post the excalidraw visuals of your videos somewhere? Would be cool to explore before or after watching something like this

[@businessgeek1716]

I was thinking of a balance. On one arm, you have a wall of LEGO bricks, on the other you have a demolition machine with a wrecking ball.

[@morganica]

Another great explainer! I really love the practice of visual thinking in your daily notes, this is something I will implement!
How can I join your Discord?

[@VisualPKM]

I assume you have Obsidian & Excalidraw installed. Create a new drawing. There are a couple of links in the center of the empty page. One of them is the Discord invite link. Let me know if you can't find it...

[@ARNBNDL]

​@@VisualPKMhello Zsolt, what is your thoughts about heptabase vs obsidian-canv1-excali? Thank you.

[@VisualPKM]

@@ARNBNDL I don't have significant experience with Heptabase, thus I am probably not the right person to comment on this. Excalidraw in Obsidian matches my thinking pattern in that I am more interested in nested and block-referenced illustrations instead of just connecting editable documents together in a graph. I've been on Obsidian for 2.5 years now. I don't yet see any limitations that would encourage me to look for a different tool... On the contrary, I believe there is significant value to be gained by sticking to your tools and workflows for extended periods of time. As a consequences I don't spend much effort exploring other solutions.

[@TheChameleon84]

Thanks for this video. What was that book you were reading at the end during the exercise?

[@VisualPKM]

How to Read a Paragraph by Linda Elder and Richard W. Paul
It's not a book, just a 70-page whitepaper.

[@TheChameleon84]

@@VisualPKM thank you!