Draw Me a Storyboard: Incorporating Principles and Techniques of Comics to Ease Communication and Artefact Creation in User-Centred Design
Mieke Haesen, Jan Meskens, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx · 2010
Storyboards are used in user-centred design (UCD) to clarify a sce-nario that describes the future use of a system. Although there are many styles of storyboarding, the graphical notation and lan-guage are very accessible for all team members of a multidiscipli-nary team. This papers describes how principles and techniques from comics can facilitate storyboarding in our COMuICSer ap-proach and tool. COMuICSer formalises the way that storyboards are created, while preserving creative aspects of storyboarding. In combination with tool support for COMuICSer, this simplifies the relation of storyboards with other artefacts created in UCD such as structured models and UI designs and supports communication in multidisciplinary teams.