Storytelling is all about telling stories – the most natural way to communicate and understand the world around us. It’s about using narrative to explain the world. Why tell stories? Because stories matter and contrary to bare facts they can create engagement and are influencing the relation building process. They can also help you manipulate realty. But that’s what I strongly do not advocate.

1. UXPIOTR BUCKI – #PRODUCTCAMPTRÓJMIASTO 2015
storytelling for UX and CX

2. Wtf is storytelling?
It’s all about telling stories – the most natural way
to communicate and understand the world around us.
It’s about using narrative to explain the world.
piotr bucki for PRODUCT camp trójmiasto Gdynia 2015

3. why tell stories?
piotr bucki for PRODUCT camp trójmiasto Gdynia 2015
Because stories matter and contrary to bare facts they
can create engagement and are influencing the relation
building process. They can also help you manipulate
realty. But that’s what I strongly not advocate.

4. Here’s your brain on data. not so good if you want to create engagement.

5. Here’s your brain on stories. very good if you want to create engagement.

6. your brain lights up like a christmas tree when you feed it stories. Even static
stories in a form of typography or static visual. That is why porn works.

7. The Anatomy of a Story
The 4 Must Have’s

8. the hero
you need a hero to tell a good story. Your company,
product or team can be a hero. It’s up to you to decide
who the hero of the story is but it’s best to tell it from
one perspective.

9. his goals and motivations
you need a hero with strong motivation that can be easily
understood. helping the world to be a better place.
destroying the evil. Slaying the dragon. that sort of stuff.

10. the great opponent
you need an opponent to show your values and take
part in struggles that show your ideals. After all the
battle is a test. just like every new development
stage is. so look for opponents.

11. victory or salvation
every story needs a closure. It can be just the
end of a certain production stage or design stage
or even a pivot. But it has to be accentuated.

12. the why in your story?
It’s the question i love the most. “why”. our most
primitive part of the brain – limbic system
resonates with the “why”. It’s all about motivation.

13. It’s not just about the story but also
how the story is told that matters
the simpler the better. cognitive ease helps
us understand the world and the
motivation. so does Rhyme-as-reason effect.

14. The rhyme-as-reason effect (or Eaton-
Rosen phenomenon) is a cognitive bias
whereupon a saying or aphorism is judged
as more accurate or truthful when it is
rewritten to rhyme.
say it don’t spray it.

15. why so serious?
use humour and action twists in your stories.
the best dramas have some funny plots in it.
the best comedies have some emotional touch
to it. do it like Spielberg does.

16. emotions vs. facts

17. 1882 was a good year. Richard Wagner completed his opera "Parsifal", 1st Dutch female physician
Aletta Jacobs opened her office and Domenico Vergnano, the great founder of Caffè Vergnano opened
his first coffee store in Chieri in Italy. Those were the humble beginnings of what is now the oldest
family owned and operated coffee brewing business.
What started as a small apothecary in Chieri, a small town at the foot of Turin hills is now the oldest
family owned coffee roasting company in the World with almost 140 years old story and handed down
by four generations.
start like a storyteller use well known heroes use surprise facts that matter.
use intriguing locations like shire (where hobbits live) or Chieri (where the hell is that)

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19. iconic stories have it

20. how to start your story?
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21. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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22. make your brand story sexy as
hell. like Michael & markus

24. where your story takes life?

25. even the production process is a story.
especially a developers journey.

27. it is about goals not functionalities.

28. stories make useful content.

29. their structure matters

30. they make the navigation easier

31. they give meaning

32. they are timeless

33. they help your business

34. branding or information?

35. the link and hyperlink

36. CONTENT VS CONTEXT