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What is Bodystorming?

Bodystorming is a technique used in interaction design. It is a firsthand experience in a physical setting to illustrate problem as well as develop solutions for the problem. Bodystorming enables design team members, users and clients to gain first-hand appreciation of existing or future conditions through active engagement. Team members often use materials and props to better depict the situation.

Through bodystorming designers are able to build an increased empathy for the people that they have identified as users they are designing for through the process of “re enactment. This process gives the designer a hands on experience of how these types of people interact with the environment around them such as products and services both physically and emotionally.

Bodystorming is done in the early stages of the design process, during this process designers