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