How UX storyboards can transform your creative process

Storyboarding is much more than an artifact, it’s a way of thinking. If you’re new to storyboarding, this article will help you try it out.

Have you ever felt that there is a big jump between ideation and wireframing? That all your work to understand the user and their context is proving to be a bit tricky to tie into your design decisions?

You might need a middle step.

I work at an innovation lab where we frequently enter this murky design territory. In this article I’ll discuss a middle step we use: Storyboarding.

If your introduction to storyboarding was being handed a template with panels with description boxes below — I’d encourage you to take a second look. Storyboarding is much more than an artifact, it’s a way of thinking.

If you’re new to storyboarding, the article will (hopefully) help you try it out.

What is a storyboard?

First, let’s establish what a UX storyboard is, and isn’t. If you’ve ever heard of storyboards, you might be picturing something like this… an artfully presented sequence of action shots.