Mastering visual communication for software development
summary
Shows concrete patterns and antipatterns: Meta style (style signals project stage), face in the crowd (tailor detail to audience), and explosion of unicorns (too many meaningless colors). Recommends C4 levels (context → container) and explicit cross‑references like 2 → 2.1, insists keys live inside diagrams, and gives tooling: Chrome/Firefox devtools, Sim Daltonism, Sim Daltonism window on Mac and grayscale checks. Drops surprising stats (about 4.5% color‑blind, ~1 in 12 men ≈ 350M people) and practical fixes that reduce miscommunication.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Visual communication intro
- 1:26Diagram style cues
- 3:59Know your audience
- 6:51Mixing abstraction levels
- 9:41Too many colors
- 11:52Color is key relying on color alone
- 16:49Multiple letter acronym hell
- 19:17Consistent representations
- 21:30Summary & Q&A
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