Exercise 1: Visual Note-Taking

In this first excise in preparation for my Ironhack Bootcamp starting in March I choosed this TED Talk about personal computing. This video is film in 1997 and Pattie Maes, a Doctor in Computer Reflection, explains how intelligent agents will interact with software ecologies in the next 50 years of personal computing. This is what is actually happening!

Luckily, since my early studies in school and specially after in the University, as I attended the textile design career, I was encourage to take visual notes for my courses. I find this process crucial and I feel as a designer to retain visual information is the most amazing way to learn. I have always been a visual person and I enjoy that!

Back to the TED Talk, I took first this hand writing notes, that are just the first steps to a better understanding of the material.

After this first aproach, I started organizing the ideas and find out how some important points of the information connected in a total logical way with other highlights. So, I made a new structure of my visual notes:

Once my ideas were nearly clear, I made a simple and final graphic of my notes. I also corrected the gramar of my writting:

My conclusion is that this exercise is a great habit to improve how we process information to connect ideas.