Comments on: Personas: Useless Without Proper Research?

By: peterpixel writings » Blog Archive » Writing Personas

peterpixel writings » Blog Archive » Writing Personas — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:41:24 +0000

[...] to remember when making a persona is to construct them by using real data and research, as I have written about before. Personas and scenarios consist of several elements. A good persona provides an excellent reference [...]

By: Henning Fritzenwalder

Henning Fritzenwalder — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:03:43 +0000

True in a way, that you should not rely on some half-baked personas and feel like you have done UCD. However – first law in UCD is to focus on the user. And if there are no users around and time and budget is limited, I would rather draw some personas to illustrate my case than just do without. There are always some fitting personas from other projects anyway to help me out and bring life to the case.

By: Dennis Koks

Dennis Koks — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:19:59 +0000

Absolutley true what you’re saying here. I had a job interview today at a “certain” design company and we also had a brief discussion about persona’s.
I came to realize that the way I use them is to almost get to know that person, I don’t even think it goes to far by saying: being that person.
Here is another link to an article called: Three important Benefits of Personas. You might find it interesting.
http://www.uie.com/articles/benefits_of_personas/