A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.
In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.
There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story.
A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.