STORIFY - A tool to assist design teams in envisioning and discussing user experience

Atasoy B., Martens J.

29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011, Vancouver, Canada, 7 - 12 May 2011, pp.2263-2268 identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Doi Number: 10.1145/1979742.1979905
  • City: Vancouver
  • Country: Canada
  • Page Numbers: pp.2263-2268
  • Keywords: Conceptual design, Design process, Design tools, Storyboarding, Storytelling, User experience design
  • TED University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Design is changing into an experience-oriented discipline; consequently designers need appropriate tools and methods to incorporate experiential aspects into their designs. A story is a crafted experience and storytelling is the craft. Therefore, understanding the structural strategies behind storytelling and learning how to incorporate them into a design process is relevant for designers when they want to envision, discuss and influence user experiences. In this paper we introduce STORIFY, a multi-modal tool to provide design teams with an experiential approach towards designing interactive products by incorporating dramaturgical techniques from film and sequential art.