Storyboarding

On the 12th March 2009 we invited Fergus Roche to join us on our company day and ran a workshop on storyboarding. Fergus heads up user experience at an agency called Enable Interactive in Bristol.

In December 2008 he presented storyboarding as part of the User Centered Design process at the UPA in Turin.

Storyboarding, with its roots in the animation and film industry, is an extremely engaging and powerful method to shape and visualise interactions. Examples of where it can be used range from the animation of a single homepage banner over user journeys to complex cross- channel experiences. The workshop was an excellent mixture of input from Fergus, hands-on experience and refinement of our skills in a number of iterations.

After the workshop Fergus continued to throw some shapes, this time on the dance floor in Shoreditch.

Apart from learning a lot everybody had a great time and agreed that storyboarding is a valuable part of the User Centered Design toolbox.

Storyboarding, spread out and attach to the windows Images can be creative

Andew Walker shows off his ‘handy work’

Read our interview with Fergus in our May newsletter.