How to Storyboard your Website
- 1. HOW TO STORYBOARD YOUR WEBSITE B Y R A J A S I N H A , C E O R E D K I T E D I G I T A L M A R K E T I N G & W E B D E S I G N S E R V I C E S
- 2. Storyboarding your website is important as you will need to have a tangible and visual model of the pages you are going to have to ensure that you are in the right track and that you are saving time and resources. This will also help you gauge how much of a UX (User Experience) can your visitors get from your initial website ideas. Here is a quick guide from Redkite, a digital marketing in the Philippines, to help your venture to a storyboarding for a remarkable website design.
- 3. When to Storyboard Website storyboarding usually comes after the brainstorming process wherein the general structure and content the webpages are finally developed. While you can start storyboarding during the brainstorming process, it’s organized to do it when all your ideas are gathered together and ripe for a final product. Before storyboarding, the topics and themes in your website should also be ready, as well as how you’ll do the storyboarding. You can adapt different structures for storyboarding such as the linear or the layered format. Storyboarding is an essential procedure and not something you can skip. It organizes things, enforces and will provide efficiency to move things forward.
- 4. What to Storyboard When storyboarding, you should keep in mind the users that will browse your website so design a website that is straightforward, easy to navigate, and has elements that are consistent with each other. Sit down and evaluate your demographic, learn their online search patterns, what you want for them to take from your website, how they should find it, and how you can satisfy them. To make things even better for your you can gather opinions of your target audience and get inspiration from there. This is what storyboarding really preparing your website for your niche. Separate from this is a storyboard that shows each of the webpages in all their glory, from headings, images, and even text used. There is no need to elaborate too much, you just need to show their primary well as adding specific notes as much as you like. You should also number your storyboards so you won’t get of the order.
- 5. Where to Storyboard Where you want to draw your storyboard is not covered by any official rules. Along with your team or your website designer(s), you can create doodles on pads or do it in a large whiteboard that can be easily seen and easily by anyone. However, once things are already put into stone, you will need to have an official and presentable storyboard that can be used as a guide for paper prototyping. Final storyboarding can be done through apps or software like: • Dreamweaver • FrontPage • Canva • MS PowerPoint It can also be done using preset graphics opposed to being manually sketched or handwritten. But with our technology of today, you can also combine the manual and digital, like infusing elements drawn by hand to a template inside a software.
- 6. Other StoryboardTips As we have already mentioned before, website storyboarding promotes collaboration so make sure that everyone in your team has the chance to create storyboards.You can delegate certain topics for a group or have everyone take a shot at a particular webpage. Also, always start with pen and paper so you can easily throw away unlikely ideas and not get too attached. As in the name, storyboarding provides the flow of your website’s story.Yes, a narrative in form of an experience should be found in your website and this can only happen with a proper and well- thought storyboard. Now that you have a better idea of the techniques and the usefulness of storyboarding, it is time to for your imagination to work!
- 7. TLDR? Before we end here is a quick rundown of how to storyboard your website for our TLDR (too long, didn’t read) readers: • Brainstorm your website design and content • Think about your user experience when storyboarding • Do manual sketches or drawings or use software like Dreamweaver, Canva, MS PowerPoint • Start with your home page • Then proceed with category pages and subcategories • Create a sitemap • Evaluate sitemap with the rest of your team • Put out a final storyboard for paper prototyping • Celebrate!
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