Timeline for What's the difference between User profiles and Personas?
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| Jan 5, 2017 at 11:52 | comment | added | SteveD | When I said "fictional" I should have qualified it a bit more by saying most personas are not based on any research - you are correct that the persona is not an actual person that exists in real life, but the characteristics behind the persona should be based on research from lots of real people. | |
| Jan 5, 2017 at 11:44 | comment | added | BoneStarr | @SteveD When describing fictional, we do quite literally mean 'fictional', as in it's not an actual person that exists in real life. I did state in my comment that the personas characteristics are created based on some comprehensive site data. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 13:36 | comment | added | SteveD | I disagree that personas are fictional (although I acknowledge that many are). Alan Cooper invented the persona concept, and he dedicates a whole chapter to how you create them in his book About Face 3. Cooper says Personas are created based on research and he describes a process you should follow. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 10:05 | history | answered | BoneStarr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |