User Experience Mapping

Start with action

Beginning in medias res, as in starting the narrative in the midst of action, is a technique used by masters, such as Shakespeare or Homer, and it is also a powerful tool in your user story arsenal.

While telling a story, always try to add as little background as possible, and start with drama or something to catch the attention of the audience, whenever possible.

At the beginning of The Odyssey quite a few unruly men want to marry Telemachus' mother, while his father has still not returned home from the Trojan War. There is no lengthy introduction explaining how those men ended up in Ithaca, or why the goddess, flash-eyed Athena, cares about Odysseus.

The poem was composed in an oral tradition and was more likely to be ...