Need a Neddle to Burst the Stereotype

The findings in the Contextmapping research provide new perspectives on Visual Thinkers’ characteristics, experience, and how they perform their roles/functions with their natural instincts and learned techniques in Visual Thinking sessions. In the poster (See the post), it provides a balanced and dynamic figure of the JAMmers in Visual Thinking sessions, which switches from “the leading roles” (the blue-man side) to “the supporting roles” (the orange-girl side).


The conclusions in the previous post indicate clearly that the JAMmers need to inform and impress the participants and facilitators well in the introduction, in which they can convert their stereotype that drawers cannot be a logical thinker. The stereotype of the session participants is just like a bubble distorting the impression on Visual Thinkers. It can result in other critical problems afterwords, such problem 9, “Time issue”. Therefore, the conceptual design will be the goal to address the problem 1, “What is my role? & where is my stage?” (See the previous post).

This stereotype results in the neglect of participants or a conflict with facilitators who should cooperate with JAMmers. However, JAMmers usually have only several minutes to introduce their roles/functions to the participants in the sessions. In order to solve the problem, a concept will be developed to inspire participants and facilitators initial awareness about Visual Thinking in the beginning of the sessions. As a result, the effectiveness of Visual Thinking will not be shadowed by the misunderstandings.