It’s Not Your Design Output That Will Make Or Break The Product, It’s All That Other Stuff..it Doesn’t Matter How Talented The People Are, If The Process Sucks, The Product Is Sucks. Drawing In Front Of, Or With Others Motivates And Inspires • Sets The Stage For The Story, Puts Everyone On A Similar Track. • Starts A Dialogue, Breaks Down Barriers, Allows Others To Start Adding Gives Them Peace Of Mind Get Good At Starting Conversations. Put Yourself At The Centre Of The Narrative • Take Advantage Of Agile To Keep Conversations Flowing. Think Like A Film Crew; Edit Against The Plot. • Like A Serial Publication, Start With A Story Arc, Then Write As Many Stories As You Need
TELLING STORIES THROUGH DESIGN 11 June 2010 — Hannah Donovan MY FRUSTRATION Prologue Prologue IT’S NOT YOUR DESIGN OUTPUT THAT WILL MAKE OR BREAK THE PRODUCT, IT’S ALL THAT OTHER STUFF ALL THE INPUTS. Prologue IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW TALENTED THE PEOPLE ARE, IF THE PROCESS SUCKS, THE PRODUCT IS SUCKS. Prologue Prologue Prologue SO WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH STORYTELLING? YOU ARE THE STORYTELLER Part 1 YOUR SUPERPOWER: YOU CAN DRAW Part 1 Examples of sequential visuals: Comics & film storyboards Art credit: Ron Smith Credit: Lucas Arts [...]... of the narrative • Take advantage of Agile to keep conversations flowing Think like a film crew; edit against the plot • Like a serial publication, start with a story arc, then write as many stories as you need STORYTELLING WITHIN AN ORGANISATION Part 3 Part 3 STORIES ARE ALREADY NATURAL FOR AN ORGANISATION Part 3 ORGANISATIONAL LORE Examples of lore collecting 2007 - 2010 Weaving user’s stories into... - 2010 Weaving user’s stories into the organisational lore… Part 3 A NARRATIVE APPROACH TO PRESENTATION Part 3 STORIES: UP, DOWN & AROUND… A project that sparked educational storytelling PART 3 — SUMMARY • Gather company lore & spread it • Use a narrative approach to storytelling • Give everyone (especially people up the chain) a story to tell YOUR TOOLKIT Part 4 ... COMES FROM AN ORAL TRADITION Part 2 STORYTELLING IN AGILE Part 2 MAKING CONVERSATIONS HAPPEN Part 2 ARM YOURSELF WITH A DRAWING (OR THE ABILITY TO MAKE ONE) AND A STORY Part 2 THINK LIKE A FILM CREW Part 2 LET INFLUENCES IN YOU’RE THE EDITOR Bits & bobs of the overarching story arc Tactical UI implementation for a single story… PART 2 - RECAP • Get good at starting conversations Put yourself at the centre... dded) always being a obblers (more scr page content House style “sketchy” visual IN A hint that there progress PART 1 — RECAP • Drawing in front of, or with others motivates and inspires • Sets the stage for the story, puts everyone on a similar track • Starts a dialogue, breaks down barriers, allows others to start adding & gives them peace of mind GOOD TEAMWORK IS STORYTELLING Part 2 Part 2 STORYTELLING... THE GR ATES! OR MORE UPD F OBBLERS EATURED SCR NEW & F Spotify HypeMachine Learn More » Learn More » MOG Learn More » O YOU USE? RE — WHICH D O PLUS MANY M iTunes iPOd Player Windows Media Winamp Amarok Android More… B ET A Letting users know Featured content c just new cool scrob m regularly, it might template More easily maint clients lala CoverSutra e exotic ld for the mor Check out Bui favourite?...My (crappy) sketches for Last.fm’s Best of 2009 feature 1 The finished product 1 Some of our tools 1 l round out the links and gener For Phase 2, we wil torials, developer links to build, tu content like: deep include DOES IT SCROBBLE?t s almo The answer is always, YES! ou listen to racks what y Scrobbling t r Learn more a media playe in de bbling tips? Tra ooking for scro L orums