HCID 2014: Film & broadcasting techniques applied to UX design. Rebeca Miranda, System Concepts

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- Storytelling techniques along the research and design process. - Elements of a story (Characters, plot, space, time) How to create stories - Creating characters from your users - Using the plot as problem solving tool. - Ordering the information to make sense for the viewer. - Narrative types and uses - Filming and broadcasting audiovisual techniques to tell your stories. - Your user as a story creator

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Film & broadcasting techniques applied to UX design Human Computer Interaction Day 2014

Rebeca Miranda

23rd April 2014

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Agenda

Film & broadcasting techniques applied to UX design

Human Computer Interaction Day 2014 Rebeca Miranda

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Storytelling techniques along a User Centred Design process

Research

Design Development & Evaluation

Storyboards VoxPops Video Highlights Sketching

Collecting stories Personas

Brainstorming Role Play

Personas Storyboards Using stories

to inform other teams

Turning users’ stories into tasks Ideation sessions

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How to create stories

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Elements of a story In a UX context

123 Space and time

Characters

Concept

4 Plot

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What do I want to convey with my story?

Who is my audience?

Why is this story relevant?, why do other people need to know it?

The concept

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User research

Insights

Personas Storyboards

Live Personas Role Play

Videos

Your story User stories

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Creating characters from users Working with Live Personas

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Ways to create characters from your users

-  Real data coming from User interviews, ethnography, etc: picking up those characters that are more interesting, engaging. You don’t need to copy the person, just use it as a starting point (e.g. age, profession, and the single bit that call your attention when you visited their home: e.g. she was very tidy, and worried about not to annoyed her roomate)

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-  Using your imagination: characters that come from target audience groups, and in a way embrace the characteristics of that group. In this way, you need to use your imagination, and you might need to bring the character a bit to the extreme to make it clear.

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-  Observing users is going to give your character:

Credibility

Most times real people are far more interesting that fantasies (e.g. the guy we interview for O2 as an interesting character (hero), had an accident his struggle to recover mobility and speech.

Plot

Real problems and facts that will help you build your plot, and the space and time in which the story will develop

Creating characters from your users

Real users

Your imagination

[Use the personas we created for SC – create drawings]

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Creating characters from users

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Working with archetypes.

Archetype: ˈärk(i)ˌtīp

•  a very typical example of a certain person or thing: the book is a perfect archetype of the genre.

•  a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology: mythological archetypes of good and evil.

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1.  Setup (Character and basic situation is introduced)

2.  Conflict (and incident, a problem or a catalyst that puts things and characters into motion)

3.  Resolution (the problem is solved, characters confront it and the situation leads to and end – calm state again)

[Introduce a chart that illustrate this with a graph showing moments of tension, attention, intereste, peaks]

Ordering the information to make sense for the viewer. Structure and linearity

1 2 3 Resolution The problem is solved, characters confronted and the situation leads to an end – calm state again

Conflict And incident, a problem or a catalyst that puts things and characters into motion

Setup Character and basic situation are introduced

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Pre-production Planning ahead

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Production Shot & framing Types of shots

Resource images Mid Shot Medium close-up Close-up

Very wide shot Wide shot

Source: http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/

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Post-production Video edition & audio

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Videos and animations VoxPops, research deliverables and communication tools

Other techniques to create stories

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•  Different characters' points of view on the same story

•  Different outcomes of the same story

•  Different outcomes depending on the spectator

Narrative types and uses Non-linear variations

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Using the plot as a problem solving tool. HCID 2013 – Innovation workshop

Aspects of the experience Solutions

Issue/ Challenge

Variations of solution

Valid idea

Story (2nd act) Story (1st act)

Using stories to create solutions

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Using the plot as a problem solving tool. 221b Baker Street

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Your user as a story creator

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Rebeca Miranda

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Videos and animations Project deliverables