Storyboarding Steve Chenoweth & Chandan Rupakheti RHIT Chapters 13, Requirements Text and 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 omba.htm omba.htm

Another Storyboard Example  More movies – Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Storyboard from Storyboarding 101, by James O. Fraioli. Michael Weise Productions, 2000, ISBN

Google Chrome  ebooks/chrome/ ebooks/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 we-may-think/303881/ 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