The highlight of the day was Karl Fast's presentation on Visualization. I won't get into the substance just yet but the big take away were the following ideas:

• visualization shifts the user from the cognative to the perceptual
• this shift is not meant to eliminate cognition but to lower the cost structure of cognition
• the whole purpose of what we do, whether it is visualization or IA, is to create understanding

That last bullet is critical and I will be exploring that idea later.
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