From the course: UX Design: 5 Creating Scenarios and Storyboards
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Next steps: Prototyping
From the course: UX Design: 5 Creating Scenarios and Storyboards
Next steps: Prototyping
- [Instructor] Scenarios help to keep you honest. Some designs look great, but are unachievable. As the saying goes, the devil is in the details. What scenarios do is help you to work out some of those details before you commit to building a product around a single sketch of a UI that may or may not work. Storyboards help you communicate. Though they aren't essential for moving forward, having a visual depiction of your scenarios could help with getting buy-in from other team members or management, and can help identify issues that you wouldn't see in text alone. Early feedback is much cheaper than writing the wrong code. Writing things down as scenarios, then visualizing them with storyboards, lets you find issues before you've invested in interface development. It means you build the right thing first time, saving the time and expense of code rework. Next, you're going to be creating paper prototypes of the interface you're working towards. Your scenarios and storyboards should give…