#16. Become a Story Machine! Free Storytelling Courses for Designers (Part II)
In this issue, I’m going to suggest a few more ways to help you become a better UX designer and storyteller. These are free online courses, to follow the resources I shared a few weeks ago.
#15. UX Design through the lens of an iconic movie: Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
In this issue, we learn that Tarkovsky’s Stalker isn’t just a film, but an experience that powerfully reshapes how we think about time, space, and interpretation. In UX design, we can draw inspiration from this masterpiece to craft interactions that are more deliberate, immersive, and meaningful.
#14. Create your Vision Board using the Power of Storytelling
In this issue, I will explain how you can use Donald Miller’s StoryBrand Framework to create a vision board that aligns with your goals, tackles key areas of your life, and inspires action. I create my vision board using this storytelling technique that I typically use to help my clients visualise their businesses. With creativity and adaptation, we can apply the same structure to envision our lives and the year to come.
#12. Become a Story Machine! Storytelling Books for Designers (Part I)
In this issue, I recommend several essential books for designers, each centered on a different area of design, yet all connected by the theme of storytelling. The goal is that you will soon become a Story Machine yourself!
#11. A survival kit for creative minds: three storytelling tools to inspire you!
While there are tons of informative articles about creativity just waiting to be Googled, I think we each have our own personal ways of staying creative. That said, I do have a ‘Survival Kit for Creativity’, so I will now share three tools that form part of this essential kit!
#10. Three reasons why you should adopt visual storytelling
In this issue, I want to delve deeper into visual storytelling, which is perhaps one of the most recognised aspects of my work. I will explain why and how you should start adopting this approach to enrich your digital products with a more engaging narrative, even if you are not an illustrator yourself!
#8. Storytelling with typography: Three lessons from the movie Elvis
Typography is a versatile and multi-faceted storytelling element worth every designer's attention. In this issue dedicated to the movie Elvis by Baz Luhrmann, I share three tips that we can learn and apply to our design projects.
#7. Using storytelling to research innovative ideas
Every product needs to stand the test of time and even very established companies operate in an ever-changing world that constantly needs innovative ideas. In this issue, I want to introduce two useful tools I use even before I open my sketch pad – the Research and the Sensemaking Map – that help me explore new ideas and create more authentic, future-focused products.
#6. Enhance your design workflow and decision-making with storytelling techniques.
Storytelling is a methodology that is not limited to writing. This is the focus of this issue — to teach and explore the storytelling methodology and offer you some helpful tools, so you can use it in different ways to enhance your design workflow.