Steph Troeth: Everyday Storytelling [Feb 2014]

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Stephanie Troeth
@sniffles
Code & Creativity
Chattanooga, Tennessee
February 2014
Everyday
Storytelling

OMG Storytelling FTW!

Such story.
Very telling.
Wow.

Born here
Lived here
Living here
Grew up here
So, about this accent…

Last spring, I was in
Avignon for a conference.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alendri/4484158092/s

“Stories are like flight
simulators for the brain.”
!
— “Made to Stick”, Chip & Dan Heath.

Anecdotal version:
!
“The airbnb apartment I am
staying in had a leak in the
kitchen sink.”
Boring!
Fact!

I wasn’t always a good
storyteller.
!
I had to learn it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
The shape of stories

http://www.musik-therapie.at/PederHill/Structure&Plot.htm
Classic three-act structure

Act 1:
Setting it up.
What is the context?
Who is the main protagonist?
What does he or she desire?
!
(Who, what, why, how...

Don’t bury the lead.

Act 2:
Conflict & Obstacles
Crisis and escalating tension.
Things get worse!

“Drama comes from human decision.”
!
— M.R. Hall

Act 3:
Finale
Things get as bad as it can go.
!
When the story finally resolves,
tension dissipates.
!
Leave your audience...

Design for clarity
through storytelling

Three working examples so far:
✤ storytelling in UX design
✤ storytelling to get a practical
method across
✤ storytelling ...

Possibility ∞

Let’s try it.

Three acts:
Beginning, middle and end.
Setting it up finale
obstacles

What’s driving the story?
Plot, character, or question?
circumstance issue
person

Exercise #1:
Tell your favourite
fairy tale or fable.
Thinking time: 1 min
Story time: 3 mins (each)
Review time: 1 min (e...

Make your character(s) real.
What do they want?
How do they react to something?
What to do they see, smell, feel, hear,
to...

Exercise #2:
Tell your favourite joke.
Thinking time: 2 min
Story time: 2 mins (each)
Review time: 1 min (each)

Each sentence needs to either move
story forward and show more of
your character.
Pay attention to rhythm
and pace.

Exercise #3:
Tell a story about something
that happened to you.
Thinking time: 1 min
Story time: 5 mins (each)
Review time...

Pay attention to
describing feelings, and
reactions.

Thank you!

!
http://bit.ly/storytechniquesforux
Stephanie Troeth
@sniffles
A book on how you can use
story techniques creatively in
U...

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