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17 reasons to use Storyboards in UX Design
Imagine you were living in a perfect world. A world where everybody has fast, stable and unthrottled connections, reliable and powerful devices, exquisite screens, and capable, resilient browsers. The screens and user’s purposes are diverse, yet your interfaces adapt to varying conditions swiftly and seamlessly. Have you imagined? Now get to work!
To come up with a proper design, UX designers use a lot of different research techniques to communicate their thinking and solutions to the clients. And somewhere in this process, there are real people for whom the digital products are being designed for. In order to create better solutions, designers should understand what’s going on in the user’s world and understand how their products can make the user’s life better. And that’s where storyboards come in.
Storyboards transmit the stories through chronologically arranged images that reflect the main events. They can be used to present additional context to the team and interested parties. Storyboards are based on scripts or user stories. Each step of a person in a script is presented visually through sketches, illustrations, or photographs.
With a compelling storyboard that shows how the solution addresses the problem, the product is more likely to be compelling to the target audience.
Depending on the purpose of the storyboard and its audience, images can be quick sketches and carefully crafted projects. They can contain details of the story: objects surrounding the user, his words and thoughts in the form of dialog clouds, screen sketches with which he interacts.
Image captions describe user actions, the environment, emotional state, technical device, and so on. They should be brief.
Storyboards are often used to describe a travel fragment of a user (user journey). — Tweet it!
