Come on, make a story board, "carbonated drinks."

This period of carbonated drinks will, Ford introduced us a design tool: Story board.

Story board, originated from the advertising industry. In film and television, the role of the storyboard is to arrange the important scenes in the plot. They are equivalent to a visual script. The storyboard shows the relationship between the lenses and how they are concatenated to give the audience a complete experience.

the definition of the storyboard in the field of interactive design :
A visual script that describes a complete task or interactive action in the form of a combination of graphics and text.

A few key points of the story edition:
A storyboard is a series of interactive actions that are presented with a specific script that is coherent.
The storyboard is used to highlight a key interaction action, highlighting a key task that corresponds to the entire user experience process.
The storyboard is used to find the user base of the product.

The storyboard can focus on selecting different forms of expression based on different goals.
What form you take depends largely on the relevance of the storyline you build and the screen task or offline task.
If you focus on the task under the line, the story plate under the center of the scene, such as attention to screen tasks will show the majority of the interface. Of course, if the full focus on screen tasks is our wireframes and prototypes.

A story board focused on screen tasks

A story-oriented version of the offline task

The storyboard focuses on the edge of the screen task and the offline task combination.

The story version is the traditional interactive design method important supplementary tool, at ordinary times our prototype design is limited to the screen environment design, ignores the screen the use situation, the key use scenario which through the storyboard draws is advantageous to us to understand outside the screen the user goal and the motive. In fact, experienced designers will be in the early stages of product design scenarios, but they are not painted on paper.

In addition, the storyboard is not only the image of the imaginary situation in the designer's mind, but also can make some vague user needs more convincing, and can play a great role in the design of the communication process.

In the iphone, for example, the iphone has a very simple interface, the buttons are "silly big", the challenge is that many of the product's features have to be hidden in the simple interface style or be directly ignored, when the designer simply said to the product side " This is a visual style that requires you not to add so many tasks, "apparently very pale and unconvincing, if the designer explains the task situation through the storyboard, such as: The user may be eating breakfast when using the iphone, and is crowding the bus, he needs to quickly and accurately know how to operate a function, They can't understand too complex interface tasks. In this context, the simple design is not only the visual style of the problem, but the user needs and use the objective constraints of the situation. Therefore, the product side is very easy to be persuaded by you.

The concrete application process of the storyboard may be limited by some hand-drawn ability. You can try to do it, it doesn't matter if the picture is ugly, as long as you can articulate the key task scene.

Sunken fish mm Painted story board