Uses of Storyboards
Storyboards are turning into a best practice for many designers now because of its immense importance, the question about why de need to design Storyboards can we answered under the following points:
- Setting the right goals: One of the most important things that we as designers need to remember during throughout the design process is the goals of the product, the questions and the user journey that has been decided on day one. Storyboards make us think about the user goals in the early stage of the design.
- Blueprinting our design: With Storyboards we as designers make it clear to the team what elements there will be used in the final design, the idea behind Storyboards is to have a blueprint of the product so that we can later create a prototype easily and with everybody’s consensus.
- Representing the User interface flow: Storyboards are used as user interface flows and that is the code use case of Storyboards. Storyboards are one of the best ways to represent a User interface flow specially in a team that not only has designers for also people from different backgrounds. Storyboards are a better representative of User journey than written documents.
- A tool of communication: Not only Storyboards help us filter out the noise in the design, it is the most effective way to communicate the design style with out team and the stakeholders, specially people who are not from design background. With Storyboards, its simpler to communicate and collaborate with people from non-design background.
What is a Storyboard?
Storyboard – We all have seen or heard of Storyboards, we used to love them as kids. All the comics we used to read in our childhood are good examples of a Storyboard.
A Storyboard is a collection of visual elements set to depict any information visually, mostly it is used to depict a story or a process. But for designers, it’s a bit different, Storyboard is a way to map our user’s journey with the application or website in simple sketches or illustrations. Each illustration in a Storyboard would represent a unique step taken by the user at every stage of the website or application.
In this article we will be talking about what is a Storyboard, why we need it, and the Types and Uses of a Storyboard.
What is a Storyboard?
Table of Content
- What is a Storyboard?
- Why do we need a Storyboard
- Types of storyboarding
- Purpose of storyboarding
- How to Create a Storyboard
- Uses of Storyboards
- Advantages of Storyboarding
- Disadvantages of Storyboarding
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