storytelling

Apply the protagonist-arc pattern, which maps a user with a goal through stages of rising and falling tension toward resolution, carrying an emotional curve. The skill refuses to smooth messy data into clean arcs, so the story reflects what the evidence actually shows.

Use the situation/complication/resolution pattern, which orients readers through three beats: present state, the tension that broke equilibrium, and the proposed change. The complication must come from evidence, not be reverse-engineered from the proposal.

Yes, the choreography pattern structures services as performances across actors, frontstage and backstage, over time, with no single protagonist. It guards against role reduction, where people disappear into system roles and no human can locate themselves in the blueprint.

Avoid conflict arcs when the experience is habit-shaped, ambient, or recurring rather than goal-driven. The skill offers kishōtenketsu, a four-beat non-conflict structure, as a protagonist-arc variant for calm products and recurring use.

The skill surfaces the evidence gap instead of composing fiction and recommends running user research first. Story without evidence becomes fabrication, so it defers to investigation before composing an empathy arc.