title: Narrative Design: A Writer's Guide to Structure
author:  Madison Smartt Bell 
description: Rare it is to find an examination of the workings of the short story so diligent and loving as Madison Smartt Bell's in <i>Narrative Design</i>. According to Bell--a creative writing instructor and very fine fiction writer--"form or structure ... is of first <i>and</i> final importance to any work of fiction." Here, Bell scrutinizes the underlying architecture of 12 short stories--some by his students, others by the likes of Mary Gaitskill and William T. Vollmann. Bell is unstoppable, his discussion of the stories usually longer than the stories themselves. Every structural twist and turn is inspected, so that by tale's end we're reminded of those poor little frogs pinned for sixth-grade dissection, no bone left unturned. Bell's anatomy lessons are as eye opening as those of our youth (and a lot less gruesome), though I do recommend reading each story first in its entirety, only then backtracking for the bone by bone.
zlib_text: Whitney Quesenbery
  Kevin Brooks
  Storytelling for 
  USer experience
  crafting StorieS for Better DeSign
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  table of contents 
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  How to Use This Book 
  xiv
  Frequently Asked Questions 
  xviii
  Foreword 
  xxiv
  ChapTER 1
  Why Stories? 
  1
  What is a story? 
  6
  there are many types of stories in Ux design 
  8
  More work? not really! 
  18
  More reading 
  20
  Summary 
  21
  ChapTER 2
  How UX Stories Work 
  22
  Stories are more than just narrative 
  27
  Stories have many roles in user experience design 
  36
  Maybe you’re not convinced 
  49
  Summary 
  52
  ChapTER 3
  Stories Start with Listening  
  (and Observing) 
  53
  Ux design requires good listening skills 
  56
  listening and observing leads to  
  better understanding 
  60
  Being listened to is addictive 
  67
  learn to be a good listener 
  69
  teach your team to listen 
  72
  
  iii
  table of contents 
  More reading 
  75
  Summary 
  77