Communicating Product Concepts with Comics

Facilitator: Kevin Cheng
Company: Off Panel Productions
Session #: 306
Session Title: Communicating Product Concepts with Comics

Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Room: City

Description

Do you have difficulty successfully communicating concepts for products and new features? Are you looking for a new way to rally your stakeholders and team around a shared vision for your product?  As projects become more and more complex, it becomes crucial to provide stakeholders with approachable and easy to digest design concepts.

Many teams try to use requirements documents to define concepts. However, these documents often yield unsatisfactory and suboptimal results. They suffer from being ignored after their creation and interpreted differently by everyone.

Unlike other medium, comics have a visceral appeal and strong communication properties. In this interactive workshop, Kevin will share how to use comics to get teams informed and on the same page, even if you think you can’t draw.

Attendees will be shown how to use previously generated facial expressions, photos, or avatars, and tracing to create comics. Kevin will also cover 5 inherent properties of comics (communication, imagination, expression, motion, and iteration) which can help people use comics to their full potential when communicating a vision.