Post on 21-Jan-2016
Storyboarding
Steve Chenoweth & Chandan RupakhetiRHIT
Chapters 13, Requirements Textand storyboarding web article
Outline
Background Barriers to Elicitation
Techniques Brainstorming Storyboarding Today’s second topic
Story
Who are the players? What do they do? How do they do it?
Get the idea from some Storyboard Examples
More movies --This one’s from Blade Runner
In the movie industry, storyboarders don’t think they get enough credit – See www.tipjar.com/dan/colomba.htm
Another Storyboard Example
More movies – Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Storyboard from Storyboarding 101, by James O. Fraioli. Michael Weise Productions, 2000, ISBN 0-941188-25-6.
Google Chrome
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
Key Points
Purpose – Elicit “Yes, But” reactions Storyboards should be sketchy A place to add innovative content
Storyboard Types
Passive Rough Sketches, screen shots
Active Flash movie, linked PowerPoint presentation.
Interactive Realistic, and a live prototype
Advantages of Storyboards
Inexpensive User friendly, informal, interactive Provides an early review of user interfaces of the system Easy to create and easy to modify
Scenarios
Scenario is a narrative describing foreseeable interactions of types of users (characters) and the system or between two software component
Used in usability research Famous example
As we may think? - Vannevar Bush See website
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/
Extra Credit
Extra Credit: Read the “As we may think” article and write a report on it with special emphasis on the use of scenarios to describe a vision and your perspective on it. (Lessons - Extra Credit - Week 2 - As we may think) Due Monday, September 23 Class Time