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How to create storyboards for design projects using generative AI
How to use storyboarding in UX and service design without the knowledge of sketching or graphic design
Introduction — Your new AI storyboarding muscle
Have you ever faced the dilemma of wanting to visually articulate your ideas using a storyboard but found yourself hindered by budget constraints or limited drawing skills?
Storyboarding, a powerful tool originating from the 1930s film industry, is pivotal in bringing narratives to life, allowing us to almost ‘live’ through situations and ideate solutions to address what we see.
Yet, many of us design professionals, especially those without a visual design background like UX researchers and service designers, struggle to harness the power of this tool due to our limited sketching abilities. I can testify I fall exactly in this group, and I’ve been looking for a solution for some time.
2024 brings its complexity to the mix in the form of budget restrictions that limit organizations’ ability to hire dedicated sketching artists, even if it’s just temporarily.
Luckily, these days the world of generative AI opens up new opportunities for designers. In my last article, I wrote about using generative AI for future-oriented projects and focused more on scenario planning and text.
This article will teach you how to generate storyboards relatively fast and start taking advantage of this powerful tool for group workshops without any knowledge of sketching. All you need is a good imagination and decent writing skills. ChatGPT and Dall-E will do the heavy lifting for you.
I got the inspiration to explore generative AI tools in the context of storyboarding due to an experience I had in an advanced service design course at the Service Design College where my teammates and I used ChatGPT and Dall-E to create a storyboard for our final project.
I know some of us have opinions about copyrights and generative AI. In this case, the idea is to leverage the power of these tools just for the sake of using the images in a storyboard workshop, not for the sake of stealing someone else’s work…
