UX Australia 2014

–, Sydney

Using storytelling for interaction design

Half day workshop. Tuesday 26 August 2014, afternoon

Description

In this hands on workshop you will learn how to use the framework and language of storytelling as an intentional toolkit to help you design the structure of a set of interfaces and create and communicate the principles for the design of the interfaces themselves.

How storytelling relates to interaction design

Stories are the embedding of people within closed contexts that take  them through a collection of activities that lead to a climactic conclusion. Sound familiar? Interaction design involves creating a set of interactions that take people through a collection of actions bound by a context (or set of contexts) that lead them to a conclusion. When designing we demonstrate our understanding of  people and contexts we are designing for and with, and illustrate the activities we that bring these characters to their most valuable climactic set of experiences.

What you’ll learn

In this workshop you’ll learn:

  • What is narrative structure, how has it been used in other media, and what value it has for the design of complex interactive systems.
  • How to use the pieces of story telling as a scripting system for design.
  • About improvisation as a way of understanding interaction design and a tool for experience prototyping frameworks of interaction design.
  • How to write scripts for your prototypes and convert those scripts into interfaces.
  • How to use tools of story telling such as comics and moviemaking as new communication and prototyping tools of interaction design.
  • How to deconstruct your stories in order to create a set of design principles to be used as the guide for future critique deeper and higher fidelity interaction design.

Workshop structure

The workshop combines theory with a range of engaging activities.

Target audience

You should have an beginner to intermediate understanding of what interaction design and experience in creating user interfaces for interactive systems.

What you’ll take away

A copy of the slides will be provided.