The Argument for Visual-Centric Approach

  • Why Are Visual Solutions So Effective in Business Communications?
  • Visuals in Business: The Psychological Argument
  • Visual Solutions in Business: The Marketing Metric Argument
  • Visual Solutions in Business: The Organic Argument
  • Opposing the Financial (or Luxury) Argument

Why Are Visual Solutions So Effective in Business Communications?

The robustness of the information design craft and its ability to ideate almost anything on a blank page representing a client's point of view or offering is a perfect marriage. With content marketing concerns around awareness and engagement and analytic concerns around conversion, information design is a perfect vehicle to deliver and test the effectiveness of sophisticated custom visuals.

All the concerns we raised about the different understanding and engagement issues are met with information design. Information overload and attention deficit disorder and a client's typically short available time to consider anything are addressed with a compelling single visual. And nuanced, specialized offerings captured in engaging visuals can break audience preconceptions. Because the visuals are so simple, prospects quickly realize the point at hand and are motivated to engage with the visual communication. This is the general idea for why to use visual solutions in business communications. Here are a few further arguments in case you need to bring your team and/or management onboard.

Visuals in Business: The ...

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