Storyboarding
Design Processes
Visually planning and representing the user journey or a sequence of events using illustrations or sketches, helping to convey design concepts and interactions. Storyboarding is often used in narrative-driven design to visualize user experiences, identify pain points, and communicate design ideas in a compelling and easy-to-understand format.
In practice
Involves creating a visual narrative to illustrate the user journey or interaction with a product. Storyboarding is often used during the conceptual and prototyping stages of design. Its significance lies in visually communicating design concepts, exploring user scenarios, and providing a tangible way for designers to convey and test the flow and interactions within a design.
Questions
What is Storyboarding?
Storyboarding lays out a sequence of frames showing how an experience unfolds over time, moment by moment.
Why do you use Storyboarding?
Screens shown in isolation hide the sequence. A storyboard makes the flow, the context and the gaps between moments visible.
How do you use/apply Storyboarding?
Draw the key moments including what happens before and after the product is involved, and keep the drawing rough enough to change.
When do you use Storyboarding?
When designing anything that happens over time — a service, an onboarding, a film.
Who uses Storyboarding?
Interaction, service and motion designers.
