On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Jared M. Spool wrote: > You can't look at the deliverables and say, "That one's good, but > that one's bad," anymore than you look at a designer and tell, just > by looks, if he has talent or not. > > The only way to see a well-crafted persona would be to have the > creators walk through their process with you. That's probably why, > when you look at the final deliverable, you can't tell the thinking > and research that went into it.
If that's the stance people who push for personas as a useful part of the design process, then personas will continue simply fail. Design and research deliverables have to stand on their own, without some person explaining to you want went into it, or how it should be used to help someone do their work. Until more folks find a way to make deliverables that stand alone, then things like personas won't be very useful. If you look at the Joe and Joesphine examples from Dreyfuss's Designing for People (Chapter 2, pg 26-43), you'll see just exactly how a research deliverable can stand alone on at least the data it provides. Sure, the person compiling and writing up that document provides an immense amount of value *on top* of the deliverable, but the deliverable also can sand alone as a extremely valuable tool to the designer. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] c. +1 408 306 6422 ________________________________________________________________ *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
