Importance of storyboarding
I will be discussing the importance of storyboard in this blog including what is storyboard and how you can create storyboard very easily. Whether it is children, youngsters or even old people everyone loves to hear stories and when you add visuals to it, it adds more weightage to that story. Storyboarding in is nothing but telling stories with the help of some visuals. It is a sequence of sketches, images or illustration which makes the scenes of the story we are trying to tell. An example would be a comic book, it is a storyboard where different images have been sequenced together in order to represent and tell a story.
Now, as a UX designer your job is to create solution in order to create a good user experience while solving the user problem. You have to be able to communicate that solution to your team members so that they can understand what is the solution that you have created to solve the user problem. Storyboarding is one of the visualization tool that you can use in order to present your solution to the team members. In UX design, storyboard is a tool which helps in visualizing the entire user experience with a product or a service. It frames out how people would interact with the product or service all in the context with the user’s environment just like in comic books we have the entire story revolve around certain central characters. Similarly, when you create a storyboard you need to have at least one central character around which the entire story would revolve. This central character is in fact the persona of your target user that you have created after conducting your user research and then you will add different visuals in order to create and simulate the environment of the user.
It’s important that you understand that you don’t really need to be a pro in creating storyboard and you don’t need to have a thorough understanding of all different animation software to create storyboard. You can simply create storyboard with the help of a pen and paper. You also don’t need to be a pro in sketching. One can also create storyboard with the help of a power point where you find different visual images on google and just collate them together and create a storyboard. Creating these low fidelity storyboard, it is much easier to iterate and make than creating those high fidelity storyboard with lot of animation features.
Umair Jeelani
UX/UI Designer
