"In a sense, scenarios are prototypes built of words.
Scenarios are, at their heart, simply stories - stories about what it will be like to use the product or service once it has been made. The protagonists of these stories are the personas. Using a scenario, designers can place their personas into a context and further bring them to life. Indeed, scenarios are one of the factors that make personas worth having. Running through the same scenario using different personas is an excellent technique for uncovering what needs to be included in the final product. . . .
Once a scenario and sketches have been created to show what a product or service could be like, designers can create a storyboard (figure 5.10) to help illustrate the product or service in use.
Storyboarding is a technique drawn from filmmaking and advertising. Combining a narrative with accompanying images, designers can powerfully tell a story about a product or service, displaying its features in a context."
(from Dan Saffer, Designing for Interaction, 89-119)
For next class, propose an experience that would be appropriate for Project Three. Storyboard the user scenario experience: a graphical narrative of the experience through the senses of one or more specific persona(s). Your graphics may be hand or computer drawn. It is likely though not essential that your storyboard include text. You may use the personas we began to develop in Class 8, or you may develop your own.
Post your storyboard, as well as any necessary supporting information (sketches, personas) to the blog. Bring hard copies to Class 10 (March 10). You will each be presenting your storyboards to the class, as a springboard to our collective development of a single proposition.
Your individual storyboards will form a significant proportion of your mark for Project 3.
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