Digging on Saul Carliner

Digging around Saul's web pages unearthed these PDF slides from a presentation entitled Storytelling as an Information Design Technique. The presentation, made at lastyear's STC conference, considers the use of storytelling techniques in design, research, and for presenting technical content.

Saul also offers up a couple of great links courtesy of Craig Marion's Software Design Smorgasbord:

• Gerd Waloszek's article offers a tempting glimpse into the future of narrative user interfaces—revolutionary interfaces, based on storytelling, which attempt to mimic the communication behavior of humans.


• Usability designer Whitney Quesenbery believes storytelling is a powerful way to explain complex concepts, and present a vision for a design. Points she makes in these PDF slides from a presentation made at another STC conference. Have to get to one of these STC conferences!