If you want to explain something to people on your website, an animated video explanation is the best way to get their attention and get your message across.
An animated explanation video doesn’t need to be long to explain a concept. If you can distill a simple concept down to just its essentials, a simple video explanation can be 30 seconds or less. That’s the idea behind a series of concept videos I call “30 Second Explanations.”
This explanatory infographic video is a teaser for brands to become more aware of how changes in consumer internet use will effect how brands communicate with consumers.
I believe that there’s a bit of confusion out there about the term visual thinking. If you ask a bunch of people what visual thinking is, you’ll get a range of answers. Some will answer, “graphic recording” or “sketch notes,” while others will point at infographics as the definition of what visual thinking is. Meanwhile the [...]
Inspired by Susan Cain‘s book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, being an introvert myself, I created this 30 second animated explanation video that illustrates a key distinction between introverts and extraverts. In social situations, extraverts gain energy while introverts expend energy.
In their book Rework (highly recommended), Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson recommend taking some time away from your normal project to do some short projects just for fun. With that in mind, I had the idea of doing “30 Second Explanations” – short, very focused explanation videos that I could do in a few [...]
In 2008 and 2009 I attended the VizThink conference. VizThink was the world’s first visual thinking conference and was dedicated to visualization in all forms of learning and communication. VizThink was what spawned my interest in visual explanations, specifically video explanations. It was exciting to be part of a community of people who believed in [...]
Two of my visual thinking heroes, Dan Roam and Nancy Duarte got together recently to talk about visual thinking and Dan’s new book Blah Blah Blah. I’ve been fortunate enough to personally attend workshops from each of these two visual thinking thought leaders and they never disappoint. Great insight’s on creativity and visual thinking in [...]
From the very beginning when I started working on my Mobile Web Revolution video, I had the idea to capture my process of how I created the motion graphic video as I went along in order to share it online with others as a resource for learning motion graphics. I wanted to be able to [...]