With the wide variety of devices, touch points, and channels in use, your ability to control how people navigate your well-crafted experiences is fading. Yet it’s still important to understand where people are in their journey if you’re to deliver the right content and interactions atthe right time and on the right device. This practical guide shows you how storytelling can make a powerful difference in product design. Author Anna Dahlström details the many ways you can use storytelling in your projects and throughout your organization. By applying tried-and-tested principles from film and fiction to the context of design and business, you’ll learn to create great product experiences. Learn how the anatomy of a great story can make a difference in product design Explore how traditional storytelling principles, tools, and methods relate to key product design aspects Understand how purposeful storytelling helps tell the right story and move people into action Use storytelling principles to tell, sell, and present your work

A playbook for creative thinking, created for contemporary students and practitioners working across the fields of graphic design, product design, service design and user experience. Design is Storytelling is a guide to thinking and making created for contemporary students and practitioners working across the fields of graphic design, product design, service design, and user experience. By grounding narrative concepts in fresh, concrete examples and demonstrations, this compelling book provides designers with tools and insights for shaping behaviour and engaging users. Compact, relevant and richly illustrated, the book is written with a sense of humour and a respect for the reader's time and intelligence. Design is Storytelling unpacks the elements of narrative into a fun and useful toolkit, bringing together principles from literary criticism, narratology, cognitive science, semiotics, phenomenology and critical theory to show how visual communication mobilizes instinctive biological processes as well as social norms and conventions. The book uses 250 illustrations to actively engage readers in the process of looking and understanding. This lively book shows how designers can use the principles of storytelling and visual thinking to create beautiful, surprising and effective outcomes. Although the book is full of practical advice for designers, it will also appeal to people more broadly involved in branding, marketing, business and communication.

This pioneering work equips you with the skills needed to create and design powerful stories and concepts for interactive, digital, multi-platform storytelling and experience design that will take audience engagement to the next level. Klaus Sommer Paulsen presents a bold new vision of what storytelling can become if it is reinvented as an audience-centric design method. His practices unlock new ways of combining story with experience for a variety of existing, new and upcoming platforms. Merging theory and practice, storytelling and design principles, this innovative toolkit instructs the next generation of creators on how to successfully balance narratives, design and digital innovation to develop strategies and concepts that both apply and transcend current technology. Packed with theory and exercises intended to unlock new narrative dimensions, Integrated Storytelling by Design is a must-read for creative professionals looking to shape the future of themed, branded and immersive experiences.

We all tell stories. It's one of the most natural ways to share information, as old as the human race. This book is not about a new technique, but how to use something we already know in a new way. Stories help us gather and communicate user research, put a human face on analytic data, communicate design ideas, encourage collaboration and innovation, and create a sense of shared history and purpose. This book looks across the full spectrum of user experience design to discover when and how to use stories to improve our products. Whether you are a researcher, designer, analyst or manager, you will find ideas and techniques you can put to use in your practice.

With Early Release ebooks, you get books in their earliest form-the author's raw and unedited content as he or she writes-so you can take advantage of these technologies long before the official release of these titles. The number of devices we use on a daily basis is growing, with different devices playing different role at different times. Our ability as designers to control where users are coming from and how they get around the experiences we design is fading. Yet our need to ensure we understand where they are in their journey, so that we can deliver the right content and interactions at the right time and on the right device, is ever more important. By examining tried-and-tested storytelling principles from film, fiction, and music and applying them to the context of design and business, this book takes you on a journey to explore why storytelling matters and how you can apply it to your multi-device design projects and to your organization. For UX designers who want to learn how to apply simple storytelling tools, this comprehensive guide is a must. Understand the role of storytelling and why it matters in multi-device design Learn how to apply storytelling principles and tools to your project Define multi-device interaction design, and create a better user experience across devices Use storytelling principles to tell, sell, and present your multi-device design work Take advantage of case studies and examples of DOs and DON'Ts.

Com a grande variedade de dispositivos, pontos de contato (touch points) e canais usados atualmente, sua capacidade de controlar como as pessoas navegam em suas experiências bem elaboradas está diminuindo. No entanto, ainda é importante entender onde as pessoas estão em suas jornadas, para fornecer o conteúdo e as interações corretas no momento e no dispositivo certos. Este guia prático mostra como storytelling pode fazer uma enorme diferença no design de produto. A autora Anna Dahlström detalha as várias maneiras pelas quais você pode usar storytelling em seus projetos e em sua organização. Ao aplicar princípios testados e comprovados do cinema e da ficção ao contexto do design e dos negócios, você aprenderá a criar ótimas experiências de produto. •Aprenda como a estrutura de uma grande história pode fazer a diferença no design de produto •Explore como os princípios, as ferramentas e os métodos do storytelling tradicional se relacionam aos principais aspectos do design de produto •Entenda como o storytelling intencional ajuda a contar a história certa e levar as pessoas a agir •Use os princípios do storytelling para explicar, vender e apresentar seu trabalho "Anna Dahlström faz um belo trabalho aplicando princípios de UX e design ao storytelling e à comunicação. Ela aproveita elementos do teatro, da história e do storytelling moderno para tecer uma narrativa atraente. Recomendo este livro para qualquer designer que esteja buscando melhorar suas habilidades de comunicação interna e externa, especialmente aqueles que procuram assumir papéis de maior liderança." – Ellen Chisa Fundadora e CEO da Dark