This workshop uses storyboarding to identify participants' values and how a platform can support them. Participants will choose a scenario and create a storyboard illustrating a personal experience. They will discuss their storyboards in small groups to identify common obstacles and decisions. Virtual participants will create and upload video recordings summarizing their storyboards and discussions. The goal is to understand users' needs to inform platform development.

1. WORKSHOP THREE
Scenarios
+
Experiences
=
Values

2. WORKSHOP
OVERVIEW

3. WHAT ARE
PARTICIPANTS’
VALUES AND HOW
CAN THE PLATFORM
SUPPORT THEM?

4. GOALS
+ to identify the most common decisions and obstacles
participants face
+ to identify potential types of users and their values
+ to suggest platform features and how it might operate

5. METHODS
Storyboarding

6. DESCRIPTION
This workshop revolves around your present and past
experiences in both academic and professional settings.
To start, you will choose one of four open-ended scenarios.
From this scenario you’ll build a storyboard based on your
personal experiences.

7. Once you have completed your story, you’ll pinpoint the key
moments that influenced your path.
Then we’ll move the discussion online, where we’ll identify
overlaps and themes from everyone’s stories.

8. VIRTUAL +
PHYSICAL

9. The remainder of this slideshow demonstrates what
physical participants will be completing at the
Proposium event.
As a virtual participant you will be following similar steps
for participation, but will be using other means- such as a
web cam- to accomplish it.

10. Read the annotations found at the
bottom left hand side, shown through
the yellow plus icon:
This will give you a sense of how your
virtual participation will work in relation
to the physical participant.

11. PROCESS

12. WORKSHOP 3 WHAT ARE PARTICIPANTS’ VALUES AND HOW CAN THE PLATFORM SUPPORT THEM?
storyboarding >> IS A WAY:
TO IDENTIFY THE MOST COMMON DECISIONS AND OBSTACLES WE FACE
TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL TYPES OF USERS AND THEIR VALUES
TO SUGGEST PLATFORM FEATURES AND HOW IT MIGHT OPERATE

13. WORKSHOP 3: STORYBOARDING
STEP 1: CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOUR SCENARIOS AND RECEIVE PROMPTS (5 min)
10:40 AM 11:55 AM 2:10 PM 3:25 PM
COLLABORATING, FINDING RESEARCH PROPOSING A PROJECT EXPOSING A PROJECT
WORKING IN GROUPS OR DESIGN PARTNER TO CLIENTS TO CRITIQUE
SCENARIO A SCENARIO B SCENARIO C SCENARIO D
Virtual participants create the videos in response
to any of the four suggested scenarios.

14. WORKSHOP 3: STORYBOARDING

15. WORKSHOP 3: STORYBOARDING
STEP 2: USING STICKY NOTES AS FRAMES, SKETCH A STORYBOARD ILLUSTRATING YOUR WORK PROCESS (15 min)
ON SITE
participants receive a storyboard template to create a linear narrative based on a current or recent experience

16. WORKSHOP 3: STORYBOARDING

17. WORKSHOP 3: STORYBOARDING

18. WORKSHOP 3: STORYBOARDING
STEP 3: SMALL GROUPS DISCUSS THEIR STORYBOARDS WRITING DOWN OBSTACLES AND DECISIONS (20 min)
obs dec
ON SITE ON SITE
Virtual participants reflect on the storyboard as well, calling out the obstacles encountered
during the process (story) described, and the ways decisions were made.

19. WORKSHOP 3: STORYBOARDING

20. WORKSHOP 3: STORYBOARDING
STEP 4: SMALL GROUPS REPORT THEIR MOST COMMON OBSTACLES AND DECISIONS (20 min)
a volunteer scribe from each group records most common obstacles and decisions
Virtual participants record themselves via webcam, name the scenario they chose, show the storyboard, and
explain it, calling out decisions and obstacles. Video should be 1–2 minutes long. If working as a group,
explain each person’s storyboard and the group’s most common decisions and obstacles.

21. WORKSHOP 3: STORYBOARDING

22. WORKSHOP 3: STORYBOARDING
REMOTE REMOTE REMOTE REMOTE REMOTE
VIDEOS
Virtual participants upload their videos to YouTube or Vimeo. They might also include a text-based description
of the storyboard. To post the link to the video, please add a comment on the Proposium website:
http://www.ncsu.edu/graphicdesign/proposium2011/workshop3-virtual

23. WORKSHOP 3 WHAT ARE PARTICIPANTS’ VALUES AND HOW CAN THE PLATFORM SUPPORT THEM?
storyboarding >> THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND:
KEEP IT SIMPLE. FRAGMENTS ARE OK AS LONG AS THEY KEEP THE STORY MOVING
IT IS A STORY FROM YOUR LIFE, COMMUNICATE IT IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE
REFLECT ON THE BIG MOMENTS ALONG THE WAY THAT SHAPED YOUR EXPERIENCE
Virtual participants be sure to watch other participants’ videos,
which we will embed on the page, and comment on them!

24. HAVE FUN
STORYBOARDING!