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#TN2020: Problem solving through storyboarding

At GravityTank we worked on different ways to problem solve.

One way we explored problem solving was by using the storyboarding technique beyond its typical use of creating a modular story outline for a film. It worked incredibly and unexpectedly well. Thinking of a real-world problem from a character’s (or your) perspective really allows visual people to see the problem as a whole. You can then begin targeting and solving obstacles. I definitely recommend it… especially if you’re the visual type.

Basically, you storyboard the entire problem as it stands. You then annotate main obstacle areas (those are the stickies that you see), and then you create a new storyboard with the sticky notes implemented into the storyline to see how it would play out. We took it a step further by actually physically creating the problem solving element in 3D form. Our storyline was about going through airport security from a technophile’s perspective. Our problem solving element was an improved scanning system (yes, we built one out of poster board). We then went an extra step and our team acted out the new storyboard to see how it may feel to our main character (which was actually a mixture of all of us). It was very enlightening. It’s mindmapping taken to the 10th degree.