Visual learners learn through the depiction of graphic displays such as charts, diagrams, illustrations, handouts, videos, flowcharts, pictures, headings, patterns, designs and color are important in establishing meaning. Learners with a strong Visual preference are more aware of their immediate environment and their place in space.

This learning style preference includes the depiction of information in charts, graphs, flow charts, and all the symbolic arrows, circles, hierarchies and other devices that are used to represent what might have been presented in words. Layout, whitespace, headings, patterns, designs and color are important in establishing meaning. Learners with a strong Visual preference are more aware of their immediate environment and their place in space.

Visual learners learn best by seeing. Graphic displays such as charts, diagrams, illustrations, handouts, and videos are all helpful learning tools for visual learners. Visual learners prefer this type of learning and would rather see information presented in a visual rather than inwritten form. For visual learners, it is often far easily for recall to work with images as oppose to working with words, as you will picture the image in your head while recalling it while it may be far more difficult when trying to recall the word itself.

Dirksen states that learning styles (e.g., visual, auditory, kinesthetic learners) aren’t very useful, and part of the reason is that everyone is a visual learner. Unless someone has a vision or related impairment, they learn from visuals, and if we aren’t taking advantage of that capacity, we are tying one hand behind our backs as learning designers  (Dirkesen,2012).