From the course: UX Design: 5 Creating Scenarios and Storyboards

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The benefits of scenarios and storyboards

The benefits of scenarios and storyboards

- [Instructor] These techniques ensure that the design ideas you have are workable, show you what types of interactions will be required, help you to explore what error conditions might exist, and help to predict how users might interact with the interface. This all happens before you do any actual interface design. As with all the other user-centered design techniques that we've discussed, the idea behind scenarios and storyboards is to prevent you from having to do rework later in the process. Gathering user requirements early prevents rework you'd have to do when you finally learned about user's true behavior. Ideation prevents rework by identifying many potential design solutions before you get too engrossed in a single way forward. By stepping through how users might react to those design ideas. Scenarios and storyboards prevent rework by ensuring that there's a clear story to tell for your chosen design ideas. Storyboards are also an incredibly visual depiction of the solution…

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