When undergraduate industrial design students cannot see a clear path moving forward, they can default to familiar ideas and struggle to look at a situation with new eyes. A short oral narrative is one tool that helps students make sense of their data and forms a bridge from research to idea generation. In today’s design world, where design communication can be as important as the design solutions themselves, not having multiple clear, compelling narratives in short formats can be limiting. This paper will revisit the importance of narratives in design and review a short introductory series of exercises and tools to introduce students to narrative construction.