Forget long documents
When creating products and services, long functional specifications get in the way. They are quickly filled with unnecessary features, they are easily misinterpreted, and they can’t be validated with users before the actual design and development starts. There is a better way to define how products and services should work.
Build a story with Scenes
Scenes is a tool and a method to create storyboards about products and services fast, collaboratively and iteratively. It empowers business leaders and professionals of all industries to shape their ideas and scenarios in the form of fun illustrative stories without the need of refined drawing skills.
A system for visual storytelling
Scenes includes a set of pre-defined illustrations that can be physically or digitally combined in scenes to create a visual story. These Scenes building blocks are grouped in the following categories:
When to use Scenes
- To humanize your research insights
- Create a storyboard to show your project team how users experience their world. The project team will experience it too!
- To visualize scenarios
- Map the user journey of your existing solution as a story. This will help you to identify problems and understand their impact.
- To validate new ideas
- Do you have a great idea for a future solution? Create a storyboard about how it will work to get early feedback.
Get Scenes!
Our professionally designed toolkit contains an ever growing library of illustrations for your stories. The Scenes Basic Set includes generic illustrations that can be easily adapted to a wide variety of use-cases. The Scenes add-ons are small sets with few additional illustrations focusing on a certain topic or industry. Choose the material that best suits your needs.
Scenes is a method and a toolkit created by SAP AppHaus and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://sapapphaus.wpenginepowered.com/approach/scenes.
Scenes™ terms of use under the CC+ agreement
In addition to the terms of use provided by the Creative Commons Attribution – Non-Commercial – Share-alike license, SAP grants you the right to use the Scenes™ illustrations available on this website in paid presentations and engagements provided appropriate attribution is given. You may not sell nor distribute Scenes™ illustrations, or copies thereof.
Applying the appropriate attribution for the use of Scenes™ in your work
The following attribution statement should be visible either at the beginning or end of the document where the Scenes illustrations are displayed (be it a video, picture, slide presentation, text document, website, or other material):
Work created with Scenes™ by SAP AppHaus (https://sapapphaus.wpenginepowered.com/scenes)
Nothing in this document gives you any right to use the Scenes™ trademark other than in connection with the appropriate attribution statement provided by SAP.
For the use and distribution of own illustrations based on Scenes™, please contact us.
Documents for download
Concept and DIY Building Guide
Digital Storyboarding Guide
Basic Set
Add-On Healthcare
Add-On Characters
Add-On Retail
Add-On Logistics
Add-On Backgrounds
Add-On Creative Spaces
Add-Ons Inspired by Scenes
Do you want to create your own add-on and share it with the world? We welcome your creations and support you with their publication. Contact us!
Add-On Diversity and Inclusion by RTI International
Add-On Diabetes by Roche Diabetes Care
Scenes for virtual workshops in MURAL
To enable collaboration and innovation between remote teams, the SAP AppHaus has optimised the methods of the Innovation Culture Toolkit for a virtual environment. Now, you can use Scenes in MURAL.
Vision Storyboard
Scenes Basic Set Library in MURAL
Training video: Prototyping Virtually with Visual Stories
Friends of Scenes
If you are interested in adding three-dimensional elements to your Scenes storyboards, we are happy to refer you to the brand new kit from Playmobil: PLAYMOBIL pro. It is an innovative modeling kit for professionals, which encourages problem-solving and creative thinking in the workplace. The system is based around the iconic PLAYMOBIL figure, which for generations has served as an educational toy encouraging imaginative play. Now it can also be used by adults in the frame of a professional context to aid in prototyping, project management, creative workshops and more.
Learn more about Scenes
How RTI International Designs for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Using SAP Scenes.
How Roche Uses Scenes to Design Better Experiences for People with Diabetes
SAP Helps to Simplify Complex Academic Subjects at KSRI
Engaging Employees with a Tangible Storytelling Tool
Swiss Post’s Vision of Augmented Reality Powered By “Scenes”
Prototyping Better Service at Frankfurt Airport with “Scenes”
Build Your Story — Scenes Workshop at the Service Design Global Conference
Scenes: A New Method and Tool to Create Storyboards
