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Creating user stories using comics
- DawnHannah 12y agogreat article and love the idea of the comic strips!
- frobozz 12y agoI like this a lot. I've long considered that "As Customer A" or "As a User" thing can lead to user stories being quite difficult to read, particularly if designing anything to do with collaboration, even more so if there are multiple users of the same type. Like you, I also name my example actors. When Dora the Developer wants to run a screensharing session with Peter and Patricia the Powerusers, the narrative is much easier to follow. Using cartoons is an extra step in that direction. One thing that worries me about the use of cartoons is that it offers an extra opportunity for unhelpful bikeshedding, even before the features of the actual system are considered: "There aren't any women in that department, can you change Sally the Saleswoman into Simon the Salesman?" (followed by "there aren't enough female characters") "There aren't any East Asian characters - Can we make Ahmed the Accountant Japanese?" (followed by "Can we just make everyone white? I don't want to offend people with stereotyped caricatures") "We should put Brian the Blind User in a wheelchair, to show that he's disabled" Have you experienced that at all?
- rollerrubygem 12y agoI have to say I haven't experienced that. Having said that I'm very lucky in my company that people understand that this is a quickly thrown together gist, in a similar way to my wireframes. No one ever tells me to change the font on my balsamic mockups from Comic Sans to the allegro Lato font family either.