Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook

4.3 The Branching Storyboard

visually illustrating interaction decisions over time

This chapter elaborates the previously introduced concepts of storyboarding by illustrating examples of branching storyboards, that is, state transition diagrams showing decision paths as transitions. It applies what you’ve learned about state transition diagrams to the cell phone and interactive shopping system examples.

The Cell Phone Example

In Chapter 4.1, you sketched out a sequence that captured how a phone’s interaction unfolds over time as you enter a person into the phone’s contact list. Using your cell phone, revisit that sequence, but this time show a few of the other decision paths a person can make along the way. In particular:

Exercise

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