What's the difference? __________ cooper | Product Design for a Digital World Alan Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.cooper.com All information in this message is proprietary & confidential. "There is no country with a military so powerful, an economy so strong, and a culture so great that its politicians cannot pull it down." - Donald Gilbert Carpenter
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Drew Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:44 PM To: ixd-discussion Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples where personas are *not* useful On Nov 13, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Alan Cooper wrote: > 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. That's where poorly created personas aren't useful, not where personas in general aren't useful, no? -- Jim Drew Seattle, WA ________________________________________________________________ *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
