Oliver, The place where personas would not be useful is where the persona is elaborate camouflage for a designer creating self-referential solutions. In other words, personas help designers design for users. When personas are used to help designers design for themselves instead, that would be bad.
Thanx, Alan Cooper -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of oliver green Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Examples where personas are *not* useful Hi everyone, I am trying to understand the finer nuances of using personas. The various articles/book chapters that I have read talk about instances where using personas would be useful. But I feel that to really understand a methodology, one should be familiar with the weaknesses as well. So, can you give me examples where using personas would not be advisable/helpful? Thanks, Oliver ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
