A new handy storyboarding Tool Abstract: Have you ever had a concept for a new service or program, but struggled to share your vision of how it can solve your target users’ problem(s) and create value? Using our physical storyboarding toolkit, we will learn how to build a vision for a service concept in a participative and collaborative way, and then share that vision with your intended audience. We hope to leave participants with knowledge of a new tool that can be used by designers and non-designers alike to co-create with clients and stakeholders. This workshop requires no prior storyboarding experience or drawing skills and is a hands-on opportunity to learn the basics of storytelling and communicate intangible ideas in a tangible manner. Innovation: Storyboarding is a commonly used tool to communicate and prototype a service concept. However, storyboarding can sometimes feel like one person’s job or deter people who feel self-conscious about their drawing skills. This workshop will introduce a brand new toolkit, soft launched in 2016 and free to the public via a Creative Commons license, that sets out to: 1) lower the barrier for participation, by creating a tool that is fun and easy to use, but does not require extensive training or drawing skills; 2) make it physical, by offering a set of pre-existing storyboarding elements that people can compose using their hands, not software; and 3) get more people and as many hands involved, instead of having only one person sketching the end product.

1. vA
New
Handy Storyboarding
Tool
Karen
Detken,
Sarah
Fathallah |
SAP
SE

2. Every great experience starts with a great story
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Storyboarding
Workshop

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Why
Scenes?

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/ Why Scenes?
“Stories help you keep people
at the center of your work”.
Brooks, Kevin and Quesenbery, Whitney. “Chapter 1. Why Stories?”
Storytelling for User Experience. New York: Rosenfeld Media, 2011. E-Book version.

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But storyboards can be intimidating…
/ Why Scenes?
?

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Scenes makes storyboarding easy!
/ Why Scenes?

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How to
create a
storyboard?

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Beginning Middle End
/ How to create a storyboard?
Designing a story
Source: Eisner, Will. “Chapter 2. What is a Story?” Graphic storytelling and visual narrative. Will Eisner Studios, Inc, 2008
Inciting
incident
Final
Incident
Introduction End
Problem evolution

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/ How to create a storyboard?
Building a Scene

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/ How to create a storyboard?
Customizing the elements

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/ How to create a storyboard?
A Scene’s components
Dialogs
Setting
Sequence
Emotions Activities
Characters
When and where
are we? Who does
what and why?

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/ How to create a storyboard?
Introduction + Inciting Incident Problem evolution
Final Incident Ending

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Let’s try
it out!

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/ Create your story
Choose a challenge 30min!
Read the
challenge
scenario
Read and
illustrate the
beginning
points
Complete
the story

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Create a story with 3 – 6 Scenes
/ Create your story
30min!

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/ Create your story
Additional help 30min!

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You have
30 minutes!
/ Create your story

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Learnings and
best practices

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/ Some examples
From workshop to vision

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/ Some examples
From workshop to vision

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3D or 2D?

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Questions?
Download Scenes at experience.sap.com/designservices/scenes
For more information aboutScenes contact karen.detken@sap.com

23. Karen
Detken
karen.detken@sap.com
Sarah
Fathallah
sarah.fathallah@sap.com
Karen
Detken
Strategic
Design
Consultant
SAP
SE
Sarah
Fathallah
Design
Strategist
SAP
Labs