Drawing for Product Designers

Fig. 1

Cursive handwriting is both unique and categorically familiar. No two handwriting samples are the same, yet we have little problem reading them because we clearly discern the “model” or cursive prototype within the unique adaptation that is the individual’s handwriting.

The psychology of vision

Fig. 2

From an early age we can discern these two entirely differently shaped entities as being from the same “family.”

The evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker claims that humans rely less on words than on visual images, auditory images, and propositions ...