Increasingly‎,‎ designers need to present information in ways that aid their audience‎'‎s thinking process‎.‎ Fortunately‎,‎ results from the relatively new science of human visual perception provide valuable guidance‎.‎ In Visual Thinking for Design‎,‎ Colin Ware takes what we now know about perception‎,‎ cognition‎,‎ and attention and transforms it into concrete advice that designers can directly apply‎.‎ He demonstrates how designs can be considered as tools for cognition ‎- extensions of the viewer‎'‎s brain in much the same way that a hammer is an extension of the user‎'‎s hand‎.‎ Experienced professional designers and students alike will learn how to maximize the power of the information tools they design for the people who use them‎.‎ ‎.‎ Presents visual thinking as a complex process that can be supported in every stage using specific design techniques‎.‎ ‎.‎ Provides practical‎,‎ task‎-oriented information for designers and software developers charged with design responsibilities‎.‎ ‎.‎ Includes hundreds of examples‎,‎ many in the form of integrated text and full‎-color diagrams‎.‎ ‎.‎ Steeped in the principles of "active vision‎,‎ which views graphic designs as cognitive tools‎.‎