As designers and digital creatives, being able to communicate your ideas effectively is critical. This is especially important in early phases of ideation and product-development, when you need to align with team-members and stakeholders around what to build, and how to best craft valuable, engaging, and delightful experiences for your end-users and customers.

This is where storyboarding comes in! Storyboarding is a form of visual storytelling with roots in the world of animation and film-making. It’s a powerful tool for helping your ideas and visions come to life.

This online workshop is all about storyboarding — the what, why, how, and when. Traditionally, storyboarding happens in person, with paper and pen, but this workshop has been adapted to work for remote teams, working with digital white-boarding tools.

Who is this for?
This workshop is for anyone who wants to learn how to communicate ideas in a more powerful, engaging, empathetic, and memorable way.

No need to have any drawing skills – the session is just as suited to those entirely new to drawing as to established artists.

What will you get?
You’ll learn all about storyboards and create a storyboard (or two!) yourself. You’ll even get a template for a storyboarding workshop in Miro that you can bring back to your own team(s)!

Kea Zhang is Chief Product Officer at Pickatale, an EdTech startup aimed at solving the problem of falling literacy levels across the world. She’s currently leading a team of product managers, designers, and researchers in building products that help kids discover the joy of reading and develop better reading skills.

Kea’s background in Psychology and UX, paired with her extensive experience across startups, scale-ups, and corporate companies, has helped her see just how critical it is for companies to work in cross-functional, collaborative and creative ways while putting users and customers at the centre. Workshops are among her favourite tools for this purpose!