From the course: UX Design: 5 Creating Scenarios and Storyboards
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Tips for good scenarios
From the course: UX Design: 5 Creating Scenarios and Storyboards
Tips for good scenarios
- [Instructor] Here are a couple of tips to help make your scenario creation exercises go smoothly. The first is to reiterate the need to do this exercise in pairs. Because everyone must work with another person, they have to say out loud what the user's actions should be. Having to verbally describe the stories to someone else ensures that you write it in a way that other people will understand. When you come back to this work in a week or a month, it still needs to make sense. By writing it coherently first time, it's harder for other people to misinterpret what you mean later on. My next tip is don't describe interfaces, instead describe interactions. By this, I mean that when your scenario talks about your persona's interaction with the product, describe what they put in and what they'll get out, rather than the actual method they use to achieve their goal, so rather than saying Fred uses a dropdown menu selector in a modal window to choose the correct option and then taps the…
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