How would you rate your problem-solving skills in running your business? Your answer to this question is important. Many successful entrepreneurs have developed a keen sense for what it takes to ...

Unfortunately, visual thinking is frequently seen in education as unsophisticated because it doesn’t conform to the dominant textual paradigm. This creates a natural handicap when it comes to ...

World Sketchnote Day 2026 draws attention to the growing practice of sketchnoting—a visual method of capturing ideas using ...

Interestingly, people good at verbal thinking often score about average on object and spatial thinking tests. Only those who excel at object or spatial thinking fare poorly on tests that demand other ...

Dan Roam believes we are all capable of using visual thinking to solve complex problems. His first book, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas With Pictures, helped ignite a ...

A skilled fiction writer can take a reader into an unfamiliar mind. I can’t speak for everyone who reads fiction, but many of us who love reading want to explore minds — and through them, worlds — ...

Medicine is often called a blend of art and science. But can studying Picasso and Gauguin turn budding doctors into better diagnosticians? That’s the premise behind an elective introduced this fall ...

The School of Art & Design is excited to introduce a new Art Minor for all Alfred University undergraduate students, launching in Spring 2025. This program is designed to develop essential creative, ...

Scientists need skills in visual analysis and critical thinking, but these skills aren't being taught or practiced nearly enough in our university classrooms. One reason why science is hard to learn ...

Grandin, who has autism, has put her visual thinking skills to work during a career in which she has developed cattle handling equipment and earned a doctorate in animal science from the University of ...