Storyboarding

Storyboarding is an effective method to give your solution more depth by adding a visual component. It helps to zoom in on a specific scenario or situation and helps you to better understand the behavior of your target group. Which steps does a person take and in which order?

It will help you to tell the story of a certain use case through a series of drawings or pictures. Each step in the scenario is represented visually in a sequence. The steps can be sketches, illustrations, or photos.

By visually plotting out elements of your product/service, you can learn a lot about your idea. Not only will this method help you refine your idea, but it can also reveal how it will be used.

It is important to define a clear starting point – one that your target group understands and can relate to. If chosen properly, you can easily build on that.

Follow these steps in order to create your storyboard:

Choose a specific situation to storyboard. You don’t have to storyboard your entire service/product. Rather choose a situation that you want to detail more, a specific interaction.
Make a story of how this situation works and draw it frame by frame, f.e. in comic book-style.
Simply draw the sequence of steps.

You don’t have to be a great artist or designer to create a great storyboard! It’s more important that it helps you fully think through your concept, than create something that looks beautiful.

Tools Storyboarding

Sketching Practice Pad

Storyboard Template

22 Storytelling Tips

Video Storyboarding

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