Been working on this off and on, and figure it's time to get it out there for feedback.

Visual frameworks are for exploring, organizing and communicating information. They help clarify thinking and generate new ideas. This prototype "deck" aims to capture, categorize and explain what the core visual frameworks are, and how they're used. It's a work in progress... feedback welcomed!

The categories:

Groupings
Affinities, categories, comparisons
Nodes and other nodes - Nodes without explicit connections, order or sequence. Meaning derived from their individual properties and spatial relationship to each other.

Structures
Networks, hierarchies, systems.
Nodes with explicit connections and relationships, where flow is absent, secondary or implied. Meaning is derived from connections.

Flows
Processes, progressions, sequences
Nodes connected in flows of varying complexity. Meaning is derived from order.

Metaphors
Common visual archetypes