quartz/content/notes/storyboards.md

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mockup of user scenarios

problem with sketches

• hard to capture dynamics of interation over times=
• captures user interface not user behaviour

a good storyboard should tell a story short and concise low fidelity not about pretty picures. ⇒ about communicating ideas

Shows:

• setting
  • people
  • environment
  • task being done
• sequence
  • what steps
  • what leads someone to the app
  • task task
• satisfaction
  • what is the users motivation
  • what does it enable people to accomplish
  • what need does the system fill

1 pros

• holistic focus ⇒ helps emphasoze how an interface accopmlishes a task
• avoid commitment to a particular UI
• helps get all the stakeholders on the same page in terms of the goal

2 Tips

tell a story

• base it off the scenario

play with the angle/perspectives

simplify and develop vocabulary/your own style

using tracing and templates