Visual thinking for design

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	Preface
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	Visual Queries
		The Apparatus and Process of Seeing
		The Act of Perception
		Bottom-Up
		Top-Down
		Implications for Design
		Nested Loops
		Distributed Cognition
		Conclusion
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	What We Can Easily See
		The Machinery of Low-Level Feature Analysis
		What Stands Out€ = What We Can Bias for
		Visual Search Strategies and Skills
		Using Multiscale Structure to Design for Search
		Conclusion
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	Structuring Two-Dimensional Space
		2.5D Space
		The Pattern-Processing Machinery
		The Binding Problem: Features to Contours
		The Generalized Contour
		Texture Regions
		Interference and Selective Tuning
		Patterns, Channels, and Attention
		Intermediate Patterns
		Pattern Learning
		Visual Pattern Queries and the Apprehendable Chunk
		Spatial Layout
		Pattern for Design
		Examples of Pattern Queries with Common Graphical Artifacts
		Semantic Pattern Mappings
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	Color
		The Color-Processing Machinery
		Opponent Process Theory
		Channel Properties
		Color-Coding Information
		Emphasis and Highlighting
		Color Sequences
		Color on Shaded Surfaces
		Semantics of Color
		Conclusion
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	Getting the Information: Visual Space and Time
		Depth Perception and Cue Theory
		2.5D DESIGN
		Affordances
		The Where Pathway
		Artificial Interactive Spaces
		Space Traversal and Cognitive Costs
		Conclusion
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	Visual Objects, Words, and Meaning
		The Inferotemporal Cortex and the What Channel
		Generalized Views from Patterns
		Structured Objects
		Gist and Scene Perception
		Visual and Verbal Working Memory
		Thinking in Action: Receiving a Cup of Coffee
		Elaborations and Implications for Design
		Novelty
		Images as Symbols
		Meaning and Emotion
		Imagery and Desire
		Conclusion
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	Visual and Verbal Narrative
		Visual Thinking Versus Language-Based Thinking
		Comparing and Contrasting the Verbal and Written Modes
		Linking Words and Images Through Diexis
		PowerPoint Presentations and Pointing
		Mirror Neurons: Copycat Cells
		Cartoons and Narrative Diagrams
		Conclusion
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	Creative Meta-seeing
		Mental Imagery
		The Magic of the Scribble
		Diagrams are Ideas Made Concrete
		Requirements and Early Design
		The Creative Design Loop
		Visual Skill Development
		Conclusion
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	The Dance of Meaning
		Review
		Implications
		Design to Support Pattern Finding
		Optimizing the Cognitive Process
		Learning and the Economics of Cognition
		Attention and the Cognitive Thread
		What\'s Next?
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	Index