a description of a user archetype that aids designers by allowing them to follow the mindset of specific types of users when test users are not available.
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Persona has to be a person? Difference between Brand ambassador, mascot and persona? Validating persona
Actually, these are three inter related sub questions.
Q1. Does Persona have to be a person because ultimately whatever we will create (product/service) that will be used by human being only, and ...
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I can't decide target audience
I'm a student doing a final study assignment at a company. I need to analyze their target audience, but that is still unknown to the company. I know who their clients are, but it's (as far as I know) ...
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Existing user research for the freelancer?
What do you do when the users in your persona are relatively unavailable to you for testing out elements of a website? Is there existing research out there for the preferences of common user groups, ...
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What is a good UI metaphor for switching roles user plays in the application?
I am building a conference/tradeshow application where a user can assume multiple roles within the application and within a particular conference. For example a user can be an attendee, and have ...
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Should we worry about dial up users?
I am looking to design a site which is going to be fairly image heavy and a question came up about what should we do if the users access it through a a dial up or a really low speed internet ...
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What is the difference between Scenario and User Journey?
I have been doing some research in order to understand what is an scenario and what is a user journey. As I understood, after you develop your personas then you can create the scenarios for each one. ...
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How would you create and validate personas for something that is not a person
There are a few questions here about personas, and research methods that you might use in order to create them, (some of which I've answered at length). Examples include:
What research methods can I ...
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How do we validate our persona?
When we pursue our goal of ease of use for our users we sometimes use personas to test or guide our designs. And that’s all good – because it gives us a feeling of how a user would interpret the ...
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Include user requirements in the persona document?
Do you include user requirements in the same document as in individual personas or do you keep them in separate files?
In a typical persona document you explain the motivations behind the visit, ...
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How many people should I interview for creating a valid persona
How many people should you ideally (when time and money isn't a problem) interview before you could see clear patterns to create a valid persona? I've seen answers between 5 to 30. I'm working on a ...
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How to group users into personas
I'm freaking out! I've read more articles about personas than I can remember but there is one thing I can't seem to understand. And that is how do you group users into personas?
What methods and ...
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How to create cut-price personas using stakeholder interviews?
I'm involved in a project to build a new app. I would like to create personas but don't have the time or budget to find actual would-be users. Note: I've never created personas before and my agency ...
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What research methods can I use to create personas?
My experience with personas has been from creating personas with data that already exists usually provided by the marketing team based on their research.
How do you go about conducting research to ...
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How to find the target user groups for an app?
I would like to know if there is a general way of finding target user groups for simple mobile apps.
In this instance, it might be a simple webapp or an iPhone app which allows users to send real ...
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Is there a commonly-referenced example of a particularly well-designed persona?
I am looking to write up a review of the use of personas in the UX field and would like to use an example persona for reference/critique, but I'm concerned that whichever one I choose would be simply ...
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Should you make your design personas public?
I have used personas a lot in the design of various products, including IBM Sametime and Lotus Notes. I publicly blogged the draft personas and asked for feedback from the users themselves.
The users ...
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Does anyone use different levels of personas?
I'm not sure how to best represent different states of users during their time on my site.
For example:
New to your system:
Billy Buyer
Sally Surfer
Familiar with your system:
Billy Buyer
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What constitutes an effective Brand/System Persona?
I'm looking at the idea of creating a brand(or system) persona for the application I am working on.
After reading the book 'Designing for Emotion'(and the corresponding list apart article) by Aarron ...
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Personas: Do you study current users, potential users, or both?
From my understanding of personas, one of the main purposes is to find out how your users behave and what their mental models of the system might be. I had always thought that, like in usability ...
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How to prioritize target groups for a web site?
When you're starting a corporate web site project and try to decide who your users are and what their goals are the list could be quit long. Whether you like it or not there will be a lot of different ...
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How to recruit user test participants?
Where do you find participants for user tests and interviews for persona building? Is it OK to recruit them via an existing web site for example? How much do you pay them?
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How to build a site targetet to well paid male company managers [closed]
I'm building a global web site that is targeted to well-paid male company managers. In what way should this user profile direct my user interface decisions?
For example they will not have much time ...
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Can personas work for enterprise level software with 10+ archetypes?
I am developing a group of personas for a very complex piece of enterprise software. The problem I am having is that there are very distinct types of users, and I can't seem to boil them down to ...
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Are user able to accurately identify their persona? Or should the be able to?
We are currently developing Personas for our website and as part of the validation process we wanted to see if usability participants would be able to identify which persona segment they most closely ...
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How to perform field studies and usability testing when your target group is e-commerce managers and business executives?
If you are working on a project aimed to this type of difficult to reach user and you still want to keep a proper Lean UX approach, how do you face the problem of finding users for gathering insights ...
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Identifying a fair and representative set of users for interviews and persona development
How do you make sure you have a statistically representative and accurate sample of users from a population and what criteria would you base that sample on?
I want to make sure that the people we ...
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what question should be asked to make a persona
I am currently designing an interview plan in order to make a persona for our products(an ERP software, already online).
So here is the outline of the questions that i want to asked:
know your user ...
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How do you source your persona photographs?
Like many of you I'm sure, I consider the creation of user personas to be a crucial part of the UCD process, particularly when starting a new project.
While we all have our own techniques and styles ...
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Why Not Use a Real Person as a Persona?
My understanding of UX Personas is that they're descriptions of fictitious people designed to represent the common traits and attributes of a broader audience demographic.
If that's the case, in what ...
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Quoting time and effort for UX research
Edit : I've added a little more detail to the main question here.
There are many techniques and practices at our disposal to gain an understanding of the target audiences motivations and needs when ...
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example of a good software design document
Anyone got any online examples of good software design documents. I want personas, goals, scenarios and all that good stuff.
I wish Cooper would have included a document with his books.
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constructing personas without user research
i'm in the position where i can not do proper user research for an upcoming project. i do have some information from the customer (their rfi and rfq) but i don't feel that is really enough.
how would ...
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where to source images for personas [closed]
I've always used istockphoto to find images for personas but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to find 'real' looking people. I feel that the more real they look the more believable they are. But ...
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Is creating personas against the principles of User Centered Design? [closed]
I'm just running through an agency proposal and the misuse of personas has reared its ugly head again. I'm finding this is now a frequently reoccurring theme and so I thought I'd raise it as a ...
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When to use data driven personas and when to make them up?
I'm studying HCI and the focus for persona creation on my course is resolutely that personas should be derived from user research data. I also attended adaptive path's uxintensive last year and the ...
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