Design Comics

Free comic characters and scenes you can use to develop great product designs.

Characters

Characters
Use Mary, AnaLi, Pravin, Joe, Miguel, Galina and others to build design stories for your products or web sites. Lots of emotions, angles, and poses.

Scenes

Scenes
Scenes of the characters on the phone, interacting with one another, and in out-of-the office locations.

Examples

Examples
Examples of full comic stories and tips on what makes a good story.

In The Works

In The Works
A bit of information about new scenes and characters in development.

Backstory

Backstory
How these comics and this web site came to be.
Collaboration

Collaboration
How to add your own scenes and characters.
Source Files

Source Files
Graphic source files in JPEG, PNG, and Adobe Illustrator format.


A note on file formats: Most of the files on this site are in slide (presentation) format, which we've found is the best way to develop and share storyboards in distributed teams. The slides are in Open Document Presentation format. To use them, download one of the following: StarOffice (the inexpensive office productivity application from Sun Microsystems), OpenOffice (a free version of the office productivity application), and NeoOffice (a free version available for the Mac).

Credits: These templates were developed by Martin Hardee with inspiration from Casey Cameron, Kevin Cheng, and the web design teams at Sun Microsystems, Cisco and other companies. Illustrations, by ISD Group, are free for you to use. Please add a credit line at the end of your slides or storyboards (see the slides for an example).

Site created by Martin Hardee