Visual Storytelling

Every Picture Tells a Story.

Rod Stewart … Ron Wood

From words we now move on to images, and visual story-telling. Of course, in so doing, we don’t abandon the word altogether. We just add another tool in our sketching arsenal. In fact, the baby stroller concept shown in Figure 95 is one example of how words can be incorporated into a sketch.

The foundation for this section was laid back when we were discussing the sketches of the Trek time trial bike. These provided a means of introducing the role of traditional sketching in design. I bring them up again here as a reminder that traditional sketching has an important place in experience design—they are just not sufficient.

So, having people on the team that can draw ...

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