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Auf Der Serviette Erklärt Arbeitsbuchso Lösen Sie Komplexe Probleme Mit Einfachen Zeichnungen (2009)

by Dan Roam(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

3868812024 (ISBN13: 9783868812022)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Redline-Verl

review 1: Dan Roam is really cool; I really enjoyed this book. Yes, the pictures are kind of corny. Yes, the examples are kind of cartoonish. Yes, the exercises seem like they are from kindergarten. But somehow Roam has taken corny, cartoonish, kindergarten tasks and turned them into something really useful.I read this book and enjoyed it, but I didn't get the full value of the content until I went back and worked the exercises. Though I don't remember what SQVID stands for or any of the other organizing schemes that Roam uses, I really did learn something from his very original presentation of simple visual thinking tools.In the process of working through the exercises in the book, I distilled the complexities of my work into four intuitive pictographs. My boss at the time hated th... moreese pictographs for some reason, but the value of the pictographs was demonstrated conclusively a few weeks later. I was presenting an overview of our processes and methods to a group of visitors from Turkey. Although they all spoke English as a second language, all of the text-based materials fell flat. The lightbulbs of understanding lit up all around the room when the discussion turned to those four silly pictographs though.Unfolding the Napkin is a quick, fun, and useful read.
review 2: The author spends the first 100 pages expaining why pictures are a good idea. He could have made his point much quicker and spent more time explaining his frameworks for drawing pictures, of which there are very many. He makes an analogy with a swiss army knife: his has 18 tools on it, culminating in a 6x5x2 = 60-picture grid of the different drawings you can make, which he calls the "visual thinking codex". The types of pictures he is talking about are: who/what, how much, where, when, how and why for the 6, and simple/elaborate, quality/quantity, vision/execution, individual/comparison and change/as-is for the 5x2.On a side note, the book contains a "how to lie with statistics" error on pages 92-103, where he uses the area of an equilateral triangle to represent size. The area does not scale linearly with the sides, so a triangle that should be twice as large is now four times as large. He might have scaled the triangles to fit, but neither the sides nor the areas of the triangles scale with the numbers he's representing. Here's where I would keep it simple (and correct!) and go with bar charts. less

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