Applied to UX, storyboarding allows us to walk through the user journey, similar to experience mapping where we uncover insights about the different scenarios in which users may find themselves interacting with our product/design.īelow is an example storyboard from Disney’s Moana. It’s a concept credited to Walt Disney studios in the 1930s which they used to visualize the sequence of a plot. They are meant to tell a story and illustrate the process and experience of an event. What is a storyboard?Ī storyboard is a way of graphically organizing a story that shows a sequence of events presented visually. Read on to learn more about storyboards, why they’re important, and when to use them.
Through various types of user research, a UX design team will partner with visual designers, content creators, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure that the common goal is understood. Through these storyboards teams learn more about personas, problems they are trying to solve, and highlight questions that stakeholders might have earlier in the process. Storyboarding is a way to explore these scenarios visually, creating an experience for the entire team, and a way to illustrate expectations. Identifying the needs of the users through visual communications tools such as a UX storyboard can bring greater insight into what the user experience should be. As a designer, part of my role is to clearly understand how people are going to use a product I am working on.
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