Telling stories through design

Session description

Hannah Donovan will talk about the designer as astoryteller?—?especially in terms of the importance of this role within ateam. Improve your out put as adesigner by tak ing acloser look at influencing the input. As avisual narrator we help to visualise, inspire and curate for the people we work with as well as connecting scenarios around the larger product saga that supports the interfaces we design. By examining your input, make your out put more effective with your team and users alike, paving paths for people to tell their own sto ries as your prod uct evolves overtime.

Originally from the icy north,Hannah Donovaniscreative directoratLast.fm, where she’s worked for the last four years. Before moving to London to work at Last.HQ, she designed websites with Canada’s largest youth-focused agency working on brands such as Hershey, Heineken and Bic. Previous to that, Hannah designed for Street Print, a Canada Research Council funded, open source web app for sharing and archiving printed ephemera. Hannah also plays the cello with an orchestra and draws monsters.

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