Get the Rosenfeld Media book "See What I Mean: How to Communicate Ideas with Comics" http://seewhatimean.org
Storyboards capture an experience in a visual way. They communicate complex ideas in succinct, understandable ways—whether for planning a feature film or the user experience of an application.
In this presentation, I talk about how organizations like AirBnB, Google, eBay, and the U.S. Postal Service have opted for comics (instead of lengthy reports or requirements docs) to tell the stories of their users and their products.
You don’t need illustrator skills to do it, either. Learn how to:
Teach people by using comics
- Your audiences will learn before they even know they’re learning.
- See why comics are a “trojan horse” of information
- Convey who, what, why, and how a product fits into someone’s life
Draw without fear
- You'll start to combine communication, imagination, expression, and time.
- Get basic tools for drawing—even if you think you can’t draw
Engage users early to solicit feedback, then document that with more drawings
- Fit your comics into storyboards
- You'll establish a repeatable process in your organization.
- Capture how things currently are done—and how you want them to change
Reach users, teams, and stakeholders with a “show, don’t tell” approach
- Sell comics to stakeholders
- You’ll persuade your boss using real data.
- Hear examples of how the USPS and the U.S. Navy reached consumers via comics
- See how Adobe and eBay used comics for customer support and internal processes
7. "Once you have javascript executing, it's
going to keep going, and the browser can't
do anything else until javascript returns
control to the browser. So developers write
APIs that are asynchronous and every now
and then the browser locks up because
javascript is hung up on something."
12. “[Comics] let us illustrate what was really
happening with the technology in an abstract
and digestible way. If we just had a white
paper, very few people would have read it.”
— Anna-Christina Douglas, Google
13. Images copyright DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Bill Watterson, Jim Davis, Scott Adams, Frank Miller, Warner Bros, Akira Toriyama, Gary Larson, Bil Keane, Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
72. INT. TENT - LATE AFTERNOON SETTING
...Harry paces. Hermione snaps shut the flap. Smiles
nervously.
ACTION
HERMIONE
How're you feeling? OK?
Harry nods. Hermione glances about. Fleur sits in stony
silence. Krum lies on a bench. Diggory paces.
HERMIONE
ACTOR
The key is to concentrate. After that, you just have
to...
DIALOGUE
HARRY
Battle a dragon.
73. Where are you?
In a car
In a black Subaru
On my way
Almost there
At 4th and Main
74. Where are you?
•
indoors or outdoors?
•
place of work? Home?
•
kind of building (hospital,
skyscraper,conference)?
•
city/country?
•
time of day?
•
weather?
•
What else is happening?
104. “Instructions that look
easier are interpreted as
easier tasks.”
A Recipe for Motivation: Easy to Read, Easy to Do
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-recipe-for-motivation
105.
106. You were great!
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