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WEBSITE STORYBOARD

Draw the journey
before you draw a page.

Every screen as a frame, every route between them as a line, and the copy that has to live on each one pinned underneath. Dead ends are cheapest to find here.

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Website Plan built on the Storyflow canvas

Used by creative professionals at:

Artlist

Pixar

Nike

Red Bull

The North Face

Porsche

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Pick a board to see what you can build, then let AI fill it in. Every template is a real, editable starting point on the same infinite canvas.

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Website Plan

Map your site's pages, structure, and content in one plan before you build.

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What is a website storyboard?

A website storyboard is a frame by frame map of a site before any of it is designed. Each screen becomes a frame holding what that screen has to do, what it says, and what the visitor can do next, and the connections between frames show the routes people actually take through the site. It borrows the idea from film, where a storyboard exists to prove a sequence works before anyone spends a day shooting it, and the reason for borrowing it is identical: the expensive mistakes in a website are sequence mistakes, and they are almost free to fix at this stage.

It sits between a sitemap and a wireframe and does a job neither of them does. A sitemap is a hierarchy: it tells you what pages exist and how they nest, and it says nothing about how anyone moves. A wireframe is one screen's layout: it tells you where the elements sit and says nothing about what came before or after. The storyboard is the connective layer, and it answers the questions that cause most redesigns to disappoint. Where does someone land, what do they understand at that moment, what do they need next, and does the path they will actually take exist.

The failure it prevents is specific and extremely common. A site is designed page by page, each page is good, and the journey between them was never anyone's job. Someone arrives on a service page from an advertisement with no idea who the company is and the page assumes they read the homepage. The pricing page answers an objection that the case study three clicks earlier had already raised and left unanswered. There is a form nobody can reach without going backwards. None of these are page problems, which is why reviewing pages one at a time never surfaces them.

Storyflow is an AI-native infinite canvas, and a canvas is the natural surface for this because a storyboard is a shape rather than a list. Describe the site and the AI lays out the screens as frames with the obvious routes drawn between them. Then you do the real work: rearranging frames until the sequence makes sense, writing the actual headline for each one rather than a placeholder, pinning the reference sites and the content that has to appear, and drawing the paths a visitor takes rather than the paths the navigation offers.

HOW IT WORKS

From a page list to a journey you can walk.

No design tool, no prototype, no code. Frames and the lines between them.

01

Open a canvas

Sign up in seconds. No download. Your infinite storyboard canvas opens in the browser.

02

Describe the site

Type what the site is for and who it is for. The AI lays out the screens as frames with the obvious routes between them, so you begin with a draft to correct.

03

Walk the paths and fix the dead ends

Draw the route a visitor arriving from an advertisement takes, and the route someone comparing two options takes. Where a path runs out, you have found the page nobody scoped.

04

Hand it to whoever designs it

Send a view-only link to the designer, the client, or the developer, invite them onto the canvas, or export the storyboard as an image or PDF for the brief.

Frames, routes, copy, and reference on one board.

Everything the design brief needs, in the order a visitor will meet it.

AI-generated website storyboard with screen frames

AI lays out the screens from a description of the site

Start from a drawn site, not a blank page

Describe what the site does and who it serves and the AI produces frames for each screen with routes between them. Rearranging a drawn structure is much faster than inventing one.

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Visitor routes drawn as connectors between screen frames

Routes drawn as connectors, not implied by a menu

Map the path people take, not the one you offer

Navigation describes what is possible. A drawn route describes what actually happens: ad to service page to proof to form. The gap between the two is where conversions leak.

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Screen frames carrying real headlines and calls to action

Real headlines on the frames, not lorem ipsum

Write the words while the sequence is still movable

A frame carrying the actual headline and the actual call to action is checkable. A frame carrying placeholder text hides the fact that two screens are making the same promise.

See the content brief template
Reference images pinned beside website storyboard frames

Reference and moodboard beside the frames they inform

Keep the visual direction next to the structure

Pin screenshots of sites you admire, brand assets, and photography beside the frame they apply to, so the designer inherits the reasoning rather than a separate moodboard file.

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Unlimited boards. No object cap.

Open a canvas, describe the site, and let AI lay out the frames. Storyflow is paid-only during early access, with plans from $7.99 a month billed annually, and a Free plan launches before the end of 2026.

Unlimited storyboards on an infinite canvas

Basic AI usage to generate screen frames and routes from a prompt

Starter templates for website plans, user flows, and design planning

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Website storyboard canvas in Storyflow

BUILT FOR SEQUENCE

The expensive website mistakes are sequence mistakes.

Every page can be good and the site still fail, because nobody owned what happens between them.

Several arrival paths storyboarded into the same site

Entry points are not all the homepage

Storyboard the arrivals, not just the site

The advertisement arrival: Someone clicking a paid ad lands mid-site with no context. Storyboard that frame first and check it answers who you are, what this is, and why it is relevant, because the homepage that would have said all three is not in this path.

The search arrival: Organic traffic lands on whichever page matched the query, which is usually a deep one. Each of those pages is a first impression, and treating it as an interior page is the single most common structural error.

The referral and the returning visitor: A visitor sent by a friend arrives warm; a returning visitor arrives with a specific job. Neither needs the introduction the homepage gives, and both need a route to the thing they came for.

The route that does not exist yet: Walking each arrival to its conclusion is how you find the page nobody scoped. It is nearly always a proof page, a comparison, or an answer to the objection that stops the sale.

AI checking a website storyboard for dead ends

AI that reads the whole board as context

Ask the board where a visitor gets stuck

Generate the structure from a description: Describe the business and the audience and the AI lays out the screens and the obvious connections, turning a blank canvas into a first draft in seconds.

Interrogate the journey once it exists: Ask which frames have no route into them, where a path ends without a next step, or which question a visitor would have at frame three that the board never answers.

It structures, it does not decide: Storyflow arranges and suggests; what the site should say and who it should serve stays yours. That judgment is the reason the site exists.

Re-prompt as the scope changes: Add a section mid-project and ask the AI to build the frames around what you have already placed. Nothing you positioned by hand moves.

Content requirements listed on each storyboard frame

Content, copy, and the assets each screen needs

Find the content problem before the build, not during it

What each frame actually requires: List the copy, photography, case study, or data a screen depends on, directly on the frame. Most late website projects are late because content nobody assigned was discovered in week nine.

Who owns each piece: Mark an owner on the frame. A storyboard doubles as a content inventory, and it is the only version of that inventory anyone will actually look at.

Reference from anywhere on the web: Paste screenshots, links, brand files, and frames from video. The visual direction sits beside the structural decision it belongs to instead of in a separate document.

Client and designer reviewing a website storyboard together

Client, designer, and developer reading one board

Approve the structure before anyone designs a pixel

View-only links for clients: Send a link and a client walks the journey in a browser with no account. Approving a storyboard is a far cheaper conversation than approving finished designs.

Comments on the frame in question: Feedback about the enquiry step sits on the enquiry frame. Nobody has to work out which screen a comment in an email referred to.

A brief the design team can build from: Hand over the canvas, or export it as a high-quality image or PDF. Either way the designer inherits the sequence, the copy, and the reference together.

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Every template opens as a real, editable board on the infinite canvas. Pick the closest fit and make it your own.

Website Plan

Map your site's pages, structure, and content in one plan before you build.

Website Plan template
Website Plan template built in Storyflow
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HOW WE COMPARE

Storyflow vs Figma, Miro, and a sitemap document.

Each is good at its own stage: Figma is where the site actually gets designed and prototyped, Miro is a strong general whiteboard with good flow shapes, and a sitemap document is still the clearest way to state a hierarchy. Here is where they differ for this specific job.

Storyflow

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Screen frames with routes drawn between them

AI lays out the screens from a description

Real copy and content requirements on each frame

Reference and moodboard on the same canvas

High-fidelity visual design and clickable prototypes

View-only links with no account required

Figma

Screen frames with routes drawn between them

AI lays out the screens from a description

Real copy and content requirements on each frame

Reference and moodboard on the same canvas

High-fidelity visual design and clickable prototypes

View-only links with no account required

Miro

Screen frames with routes drawn between them

AI lays out the screens from a description

Real copy and content requirements on each frame

Reference and moodboard on the same canvas

High-fidelity visual design and clickable prototypes

View-only links with no account required

A sitemap document

Screen frames with routes drawn between them

AI lays out the screens from a description

Real copy and content requirements on each frame

Reference and moodboard on the same canvas

High-fidelity visual design and clickable prototypes

View-only links with no account required

What creators are saying

Join early creators getting structured workspaces and AI that remembers their projects

Storyflow has sped up my workflow by at least 3x, which means more flow state and more projects I can actually ship. It truly changed the way me and my team create.

Reilin Joey

Reilin Joey

Director & YouTuber

One prompt gets me a structured board. But the tactics are my favorite. I run my YouTube scripts through them and my intros and retention got better. It's amazing.

Justkay

Justkay

YouTuber & Freelance Filmmaker

I used to juggle five apps to plan a project. Now I describe what I am making and get boards, lists, and a schedule. All in one place.

George

George

@fernwehchronicles

Website storyboard questions, answered.

What it is, how it differs from a wireframe, and how much detail to put in.

A website storyboard is a frame by frame map of a site made before any of it is designed. Each screen is a frame that states what the screen has to achieve, roughly what it says, and what the visitor can do next, and lines between frames show the routes people take through the site. The idea comes from film, where a storyboard exists to test a sequence before anyone spends money shooting it. The same logic applies to a website: the mistakes that cost the most are mistakes of order and omission, and both are nearly free to fix while the site is still a set of movable frames. It is deliberately low fidelity. Its job is to prove the journey works, not to show what anything looks like.

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